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...
John Wilson’s reverence for Sir John Barbirolli’s iconic disc of ‘English String Music’ with the now reborn Sinfonia of London...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2021
Hardly a prophet without honour in his own country, Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1979) remains little heard outside Bulgaria, despite building a...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2021
It’s always a treat to encounter a really fine performance of Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel in their alternative orchestral...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2021
The masks and social distancing evident from the booklet photos tell you this recording was made since March even before...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2021
Following on from her well-regarded recording of Schmitt’s Antoine et Cléopâtre and Le palais hanté (Naxos 11/15), JoAnn Falletta now...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2021
Each instalment of Christian Lindberg’s Pettersson survey has been much anticipated and the release of Pettersson’s sole choral symphony (and,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021
Haydn’s early musical instance of ‘industrial action’ may have made the Farewell (No 45, 1772) one of the most famous...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2021
The documentation makes no reference to these being live recordings but the atmosphere of the recorded sound gives a very...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2021
‘The mighty king of dissonance’: that, bizarrely enough, is how the Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick described Karl Goldmark, and when...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021
The present recording of Gershwin’s Concerto in F is the first to use the George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition...
Reviewed by Jed Distler 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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