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...
Stephen Paulus was an astonishingly prolific fixture of the American music scene, with some 600 works to his credit. His...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2015
Although he had written several major song and instrumental collections over the preceding three decades, it was Kafka Fragments (1987)...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2015
Contrasto Armonico group together all four of Handel’s Italian cantatas for solo bass voice. A speculative hint of the context...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2015
Postmodernism offers itself as a (sometimes) refreshing alternative to those abrasive and ultra-complex features of modernism that have been around...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2015
This is the first recording of Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony in its initial 1920 publication since Eugene Goossens’s notable...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2015
If the documentation didn’t suggest otherwise, one might be forgiven for thinking that these performances were the work of, if...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2015
Pianists in the great Russian tradition were, and in many instances still are, renowned for taking no prisoners. That’s the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2015
In 2013 Chandos stole a march on competitors by presenting Prokofiev’s ‘Complete Works for Violin’ in a neat two-disc bundle...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2015
As Louis Lortie remarks in a booklet-note, ‘[Poulenc’s] Piano Concerto is almost a guilty pleasure: raw melodic talent unstained by...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2015
At the heart of this disc lie three works that Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) composed for piano and orchestra: the Scherzo-Caprice...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2015
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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