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...
Most works by Vasks present, in one form or another, a journey towards the light – that of political emancipation...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2020
Concerto form has provided Bent Sørensen with staging posts along his career beginning with his breakthrough violin concerto Sterbende Gärten...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2020
Diehard LSO mavens won’t need reminding that their orchestra has collaborated with many of the Fifth’s most celebrated advocates. These...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 07/2020
If there’s one factor above all that sets these performances apart it’s the osmosis between soloist and conductor. There’s a...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2020
You would be hard-put to know from listening to Pelleas und Melisande, even from following the score, that Schoenberg really...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2020
Although his prowess as a choral conductor has long been recognised (his performances with Singcircle of Stockhausen’s Stimmung resonate 35...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2020
At just over 44 minutes, this new album from Les Siècles could be considered short measure, but the performance of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020
There are two basic options for collecting the Kammermusik concertos (1921-27) on disc: either the set of all seven works,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020
The ‘Symphonette’ was Morton Gould’s tongue-in-cheek updating of the ‘Sinfonietta’ to create smaller, American-style orchestral works in a lighter vein...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020
If you want to hear Rhapsody in Blue with the percussion predominating, the opening clarinet glissando stretched out to infinity...
Reviewed by Jed Distler 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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