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...
The incomparable Mark Bebbington, to whom British music owes more than a tip of the hat, turns his attention to...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2020
In these unworldly times of enforced social lockdown it’s interesting what gives emotional succour. I’d been revelling in the discovery...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2020
Ben Kim (b1983, Portland, Oregon) studied with Leon Fleisher and has been a protégé of Martha Argerich. His recording activity...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2020
Here’s a Mahler Sixth that comes with its own historical context. Unlikely as it may now seem, Essen was where...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2020
To Mahler’s well-known remark that the symphony must be like the world, containing everything, James MacMillan appears to be finding...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2020
The past decade has seen contemporary music accorded much greater presence on Wigmore Hall programmes, the three pieces featured here...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020
Though Louise Farrenc’s chamber music, much of it long neglected, has gradually been restored to the repertory in recent years,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2020
A sense of dignified reserve distinguishes Vladimir Jurowski’s handling of the Concerto’s opening tutti, with plenty of telling woodwind detail...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2020
Carl Czerny gave the Viennese premiere of Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto in 1812 and a mere 12 days later started work...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2020
Hot on the heels of their impressive Brahms D minor Concerto (1/20), the Royal Northern Sinfonia with Lars Vogt as...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2020
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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