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...
There’s an urgency to David Nebel’s performance of Stravinsky’s Concerto I’m not sure I’ve heard in this work before, even...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020
While recordings of Franck’s Symphony in D minor are legion, complete versions of his extended tone poem Psyché, completed one...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2020
This fifth release in Naxos’s series devoted to Zdeněk Fibich’s orchestral music brings us the composer’s Third Symphony, his last...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2020
Morton Feldman wasn’t one to over-indulge in theory. All the more interesting, then, to read a note on a sketch...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 09/2020
Here’s a terrific new version of the dashing Piano Concerto that Bliss wrote for Solomon, who gave the premiere at...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2020
The Van Baerle Trio have reached the end of their Beethoven cycle with what one might perhaps call a ‘bonus...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2020
While marginally beefed up from their recent recording of the Emperor Concerto (3/20), the Freiburg Barockorchester field a string section...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2020
Having enjoyed the quietly confident artistry and musicianship of this team in the Second and Fifth Concertos (12/19), I looked...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2020
This is a performance of such distinction that regardless of one’s personal view of the piece – that is, exactly...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2020
Like its predecessor (8/18), the second volume of Marston’s ‘Landmarks’ series teems with revelations and curios alike. It begins with...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2020
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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