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...
Kastalsky’s Requiem was written as a response to the First World War. Its genesis was complicated and it exists in...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2020
The Dunedin Consort recently demonstrated that the unabridged first performance version of Samson (1743) is a complex masterpiece of musical...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2020
It’s hard on Elīna Garanča that her darkly opulent take on Sea Pictures should appear so soon after Kathryn Rudge’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2020
In the right hands, ‘incidental’ and ‘occasional’ Beethoven, even from the often-overlooked and underrated period of the early 1810s, turns...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2020
This fascinating collection focuses on the two American poets set (probably) more often than any others, Emily Dickinson and Walt...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020
The Cavatina Duo are always on the lookout for ways to expand the repertoire for flute and guitar. For their...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2020
Jan Järvlepp (b1953 in Ottawa) is a Canadian composer of Finnish-Estonian parentage. The works here are direct in expression, colourfully...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020
Leopold Stokowski thought so highly of William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony that he conducted the work’s premiere in 1934 with...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2020
The premiere recording of Michael Daugherty’s tribute to Woody Guthrie recalls populist chords in American history when homeless citizens rode...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2020
Oscar Wilde’s late plays and stories, so un-politically correct and obsessed with death, proved rich pickings for composers and librettists...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2020
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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