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...
The selection here represents a little under half of Gál’s lieder output, nearly all of it unpublished to this day....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2021
Sigvards Kļava’s latest recording with the Latvian Radio Choir features not only first-rate performances of some of Bruckner’s better-known motets...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2021
We’ve seen Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte appear in a variety of couplings over the past year but this is...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2021
Although very much embedded in the UK choral scene, British composer Paul Ayres writes a lot for American ensembles, and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2021
To call this a concept album would be to diminish its power and timeliness. It is both a meditation on...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2021
In this collection of 21 brief works, there is no great music, a lot of good music and a few...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2021
Whoever came up with ‘Cello 360’ as the title for Christian-Pierre La Marca’s first album for Naïve deserves a pay...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2021
Looking back through the Gramophone archive, I see that this gifted Italian pianist (b1987) has been appearing on and off...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2021
Whether or not Antoine Reicha’s all-but-unknown L’art de varier, Op 57 (composed between 1802 and 1803) represents the proverbial missing...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021
Erato’s booklet essay quotes Poulenc’s admiring description of Prokofiev at the piano, which notes that ‘the tempo never, never varied’....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2021
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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