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...
Mark Pullinger wrote movingly of Anna Clyne’s cello concerto DANCE (2019) in the August issue, concluding that it ‘should make...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2020
It’s good to see the music of the Munich-born Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim receiving increasing attention from record companies. The...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2020
Unlike Leonard Bernstein’s famous recording of these same two late Beethoven quartets with the strings of the Vienna Philharmonic (DG,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2020
Unless a Choral Fantasy is waiting in the wings, this new disc rounds out Martin Helmchen’s collaboration with Andrew Manze...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2020
To title a piece The Piano Concerto with the definite article up front may seem a tad self-aggrandising. Yet Dieter...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2020
Compared with the famous triumvirate of his contemporaries, Schütz, Schein and Scheidt (or even Michael Praetorius), Andreas Hammerschmidt (c1611-1675) is...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2020
Isabelle Demers is a Quebec-born organist who revels in the music she plays and the sounds she can produce by...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2020
Like many successful Hollywood composers, Bernard Herrmann pursued musical endeavours beyond (in his time) the celluloid. Studies at Juilliard were...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2020
Let me say right from the outset that this disc is as engaging, well performed and brightly recorded a programme...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2020
Inspired by Pablo Casals’s belief in playing Bach every day, and the conviction that Bach aspired to a sense of...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2020
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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