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...
Three of Gareth Farr’s great-great-uncles fought and died in the First World War. The New Zealand composer’s rhapsodic, darkly coloured...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2021
The four works on this release, two of them showcasing the talents of the late Ernst Ottensamer, were all composed...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2021
Mindful of Arnold Schoenberg’s 1937 orchestration of Brahms’s Op 25 Piano Quartet, Austrian composer Richard Dünser was initially ambivalent about...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2021
Joseph Moog, Nicholas Milton and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie follow up their distinctive recording of Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto (2/18)...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021
Listening to this new Beethoven symphony cycle alongside Jukka-Pekka Saraste’s (Profil, 6/19), it’s difficult to believe one’s hearing the same...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2021
I found Thomas Adès and the Britten Sinfonia’s interpretations in the first volume of their Beethoven cycle (7/20)unrelentingly hard-driven, so...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2021
There can be no underestimating the extraordinary legacy surrounding Rachmaninov and Philadelphia. That he composed the Third Symphony and Symphonic...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2021
Conspirare’s new recording featuring the Austin-based choral group and three guitar quartets bookends impressive large-scale works by Nico Muhly and...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 01/2021
Sergio Cervetti (b1940) turned 80 last year (his birthday fell on November 9) and remains as active as ever, evident...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2021
The late Leon Fleisher encouraged Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia to explore Beethoven’s string quartets in four-hand arrangements for performing...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2021
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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