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...
Stephen Farr continues his occasional Bach series for Resonus with the 46 short chorale preludes contained in the ‘Little Organ...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2020
Perhaps the most illuminating way to sample this remarkable set is to home in on three consecutive movements from the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2020
Benjamin Alard’s project to record Bach’s complete works for harpsichord and organ is an awesome one; there must be few...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2020
Émigré composers who wound up in Hollywood (or at least in the neighbourhood) are the agents that bind this excellently...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2020
Tabea Zimmermann makes quite an entrance with the programme-opener on ‘Cantilena’, Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango. Not because it’s an explosive...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2020
Schubert composed this trio of small-scale sonatas in the spring of 1816, right around the time he was at work...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2020
Philipp Scharwenka (1847-1917) knew how to write chamber music, as the four works of his maturity amply demonstrate. His output...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020
Despite his Bohemian-sounding name, Reznicek was Viennese by birth and then a Berliner by career, and despite the vintage fizz...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2020
French composers launching their careers in the early 1990s – Eric Montalbetti was born in 1968 – had a rich...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2020
Long one of Russia’s best-kept musical secrets, Nikolai Kapustin (b1937) has latterly found appreciation for his distinctly classical take on...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2020
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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