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...
Hansjörg Albrecht’s survey of Braunfels’s orchestral Lieder gets off to a strange start, since just over half of its first...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2016
Composed between 1906 and 1909, cast in three parts and lasting some three hours and 20 minutes, Granville Bantock’s thrillingly...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2016
What happens when the expansive romantic visions of an ‘exotic’ Scotland such as one finds in Beethoven, Rossini, Mendelssohn or...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2016
In the booklet interview accompanying her latest CD, Vanessa Benelli Mosell asserts that ‘Scriabin and Stockhausen shared the ambition to...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2016
John Cage’s mantra that Erik Satie’s structures were based around ‘lengths of time rather than harmonic relations’ (as quoted in...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2016
Soon after his shared second-prize success in the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition, Peter Donohoe recorded a splendid Prokofiev Sixth Sonata for...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2016
Lucille Chung’s new Poulenc disc is doubly welcome. To begin with, Chung is a startlingly original pianist whose solo work,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2016
Think of Massenet and you think of Werther, Manon and the ‘Méditation’ from Thaïs – and not necessarily of piano...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016
Since its inception in 1987, the Naxos Liszt series has released a number of superb recordings. The names Arnaldo Cohen,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2016
Stephen Heller (1813 88) sits below the salt and on these showings at least he is unlikely to win a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016
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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