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...
A late developer, Vaughan Williams took many years to ‘find’ his voice, and this, it could fairly be said, emerged...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2011
I am delighted to welcome to the catalogue a splendid new recording of what is undoubtedly the finest of all...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2011
The musical highlight here is the wartime Waltz Suite, four separate pieces, all of them abundantly tuneful, the first cast...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2011
Some two decades ago Tasmin Little set down memorable versions of both the Violin Concerto and Double Concerto with Sir...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2011
Highly rated star performers can all too easily avoid the farther reaches of contemporary music. These four works written for...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2011
Valeriy Sokolov has the measure of both of these concertos and sounds entirely comfortable coping with their different technical demands....
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2011
Sarah Connolly, with her clear, fresh mezzo, here tackles a delightful, wide-ranging sequence of English songs, with Roger Quilter the...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 01/2012
The digital dissemination of classical music now means that worthy artists need not go unrecorded – as in generations past....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2012
A remarkable achievement: a fan letter to Spanish music (not excluding South America or an excursion to Villa-Lobos’s Brazil) including...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2012
It is a bold venture for the young company Stone Records to set out to record the songs of Hugo...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 01/2012
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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