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...
Schwartz’s Second String Quartet is a tribute to the sculptor Louise Nevelson and to Aaron Copland. He has paired them...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 01/2012
For those of us with the polyrhythmic landfall of free jazz drummers like Andrew Cyrille and Sunny Murray – the...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 01/2012
After its fine string quartets cycle with the Kontra Quartet, Dacapo is evidently turning its attention to the substantial body...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2012
‘Piano Trios – 1’ says the inlay card, and it’s only to be hoped that the Kungsbacka Trio’s survey of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2012
A great programming idea, this – couching the predominantly lyrical A major Piano Quintet in the context of love songs,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2012
Although Johan Svendsen’s name remains familiar enough as one of the clutch of Norwegian composers one rung down from Grieg...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2012
This first volume of Dacapo’s Riisager Symphonic Edition contains works composed in his twenties and early thirties, which is to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2012
The Caprice bohémien, linked emotionally and chronologically to Rachmaninov’s student opera Aleko, does not by any means play itself. As...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2012
Ocean’s Kingdom was commissioned by New York City Ballet and premiered in New York in September 2011. The scenario, featuring...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 01/2012
With each passing year, Anders Hillborg’s international reputation grows apace. Listeners in the UK may recall a series of high-profile...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards 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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