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...
That Serbia has produced no composer of international standing this past half century makes one wonder whether different geopolitical factors...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020
This is a terrific disc. It is a little over 10 years since the death of Nicholas Maw (1935-2009), one...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2020
Tõnu Kõrvits is an impressively unpredictable composer. Just when you think that the very brief Azure (2016 17) is becoming...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2020
Andrew Haveron joins very select, indeed mighty company – from Heifetz to Mutter and beyond – in the Korngold Concerto....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2020
Both of the concertante works on this disc take the listener on journeys through slowly changing musical landscapes. Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2020
A product of the Royal Academy of Music, pupil of Nobuko Imai and BBC New Generation Artist, London-born Timothy Ridout...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2020
The beauty of this coupling lies with the way in which two such highly distinctive works impact upon each other....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2020
One of the more recent entries into the Beethoven Piano Concerto sweepstakes is the collaboration of the Canadian pianist Stewart...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2020
Who’s afraid of a new ism? In the first decade of the 2000s, along with fellow Paris Conservatoire graduate Raphaël...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2020
Although Nielsen’s Flute Concerto is well established in the repertoire, the other concertos on this recording are less frequently heard...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2020
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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