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...
This release includes the sixth (at least) recording of Vasks’s Episodi e Canto perpetuo but it’s still arguably the least...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2020
The Norwegian recorder player Caroline Eidsten Dahl has really ticked the boxes with this collection of nine of Telemann’s recorder...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2020
It seems a while since we’ve seen the Kungsbacka Trio on disc, most recently with Haydn and Fauré on Naxos...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020
There’s something of the Parisian café about Poulenc’s music for woodwinds. The opening of the Sextet is a prime example,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020
As a title, Wild Flow might look like another well-meaning contribution to the aesthetics of Extinction Rebellion. However, the 20-minute,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2020
Arnold Whittall noted, in his Contemporary Composers feature on Peter Dickinson (10/18), that a recording of the Violin Sonata (1961)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2020
When both Schumann and Brahms were so enthusiastic about the instrument, cellists can rightly mourn that Schumann didn’t leave more...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2020
This ‘most intimate of mediums’ was how William Alwyn described the string quartet and it was an idiom he constantly...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2020
One day in 1909, Mahler arrived at the new offices of his publisher in a terrible flap. He’d jumped off...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2020
Vol 3 of Toccata Classics’ enormously impressive, moving commemorative project (honouring Yodit Tekle, pictured on the cover; for the background,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2020
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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