Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter)
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This is the fourth, and presumably final, instalment of Alexander Shelley’s series of double albums themed around the musical inter-relationships...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023
The dedication on this album reads ‘In Memoriam Lars Vogt’ – and that gives it a special resonance. Christian Tetzlaff...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2023
In Pentatone’s accompanying notes Pierre-Laurent Aimard explains that he has ‘spent a lot of time with Hungarians and their country....
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2023
In case of any doubt, the Arctic credentials of this delightful new release are impeccable. Saxophonist Ola Asdahl Rokkones, who...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023
A young man of more-than-usually sensitive disposition falls in love, not with a living, breathing girl but with a beautiful...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2023
I think I must be predisposed genetically towards music for percussion (hopefully in my next life I am fated to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023
Near the end of the last century, the US Post Office issued a commemorative stamp of the pianist and composer...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 11/2023
For their fourth Naxos album, Arkansas’s Fort Smith Symphony led by music director John Jeter turn their attention from Florence...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2023
Ever since they formed nearly two decades ago, Brooklyn Rider have been reimagining the string quartet’s potential both in their...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 11/2023
Given the way Daniele Gatti romanticises Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (Sony, A/13; RCO Live, 4/18), you wouldn’t peg him...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW23
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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