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...
In 2013 Oxford’s Merton College unveiled its new Dobson organ, a three-manual, 44 stop instrument, built in the US and...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2016
Dvořák left a rich legacy of piano duets, wrenching the genre clean out of the salon. As Artur Pizarro and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2016
Recordings of Dutilleux’s early, substantial and rather difficult First Piano Sonata are no longer rare events, especially in his 2016...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2016
Yundi first came to public attention in 2000 when, as simple Yundi Li, he became the youngest-ever winner of the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2016
Along with many others who heard Anna Vinnitskaya’s recording of Prokofiev and Ravel concertos after her 2007 victory at the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2016
The latest album from Diana Ambache’s own label explores six works written between 1861 and 1952, and quietly reminds us...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2016
The preoccupation with representation (or, perhaps more accurately, mimesis) in instrumental music preoccupied Baroque composers from the time of Monteverdi...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2016
The saxophone has a unique status among instruments in having its original reason for existing – as an instrument that...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2016
Cocktail-lounge Borodin has limited appeal. Smoky saxophones slink and shimmy through the Polovtsian Dances to open this unusual disc from...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2016
This new version of Stravinsky’s morality tale for dancers, actors and musicians was recorded in tandem with a production by...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2016
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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