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...
Having given us a First and Sixth (2/19), René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra return to start filling in the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20
Of the many short piano works by Henrique Oswald (1852-1931), Il neige is the best-known – and the one that...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW20
Baiba Skride ‘has this rare quality of discovering the music as we play’, says conductor Eivind Aadland. ‘I know that...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20
In old age Haydn retained a soft spot for his ‘Times of Day’ trilogy, his first works for the Esterházy...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW20
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, here under the directorship of Georg Kallweit, return in full vigour in this follow-up...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW20
Camargo Guarnieri is one of Brazil’s most interesting composers. While Villa-Lobos is far more present in the public imagination, there...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW20
A full 16 years elapsed between the first and second volumes of Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players’ exploration...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20
'The real purpose of using a small orchestra’, Thomas Dausgaard told Gramophone’s Andrew Mellor regarding his recording of Brahms’s Second...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW20
Russian-born and resident in Sweden since 1993, Victoria Borisova-Ollas was a pupil of Nikolai Korndorf. He was the Soviet maverick...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW20
Symphonist to the Revolution vs revolutionary symphonist: Les Siècles and their founder-maestro have put flesh on the bones of a...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW20
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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