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...
It’s been a good year for Gottfried Finger, the Moravian-born composer who moved to London in the 1680s and made...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2020
What is it with Elgar and young musicians? The Violin Concerto found Yehudi Menuhin and Nigel Kennedy caught in the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2020
I’ve asked this before, but is any composer since Haydn better at writing a humorous finale than Ernst von Dohnányi?...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020
I think it’s safe to say that Schumann’s Violin Concerto is no longer considered a drab, sub-par product of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020
Harrison Birtwistle’s creativity into his mid-eighties has seen numerous significant works, not least a second piano concerto. Responses, Sweet Disorder...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020
The subtitle of this excellent disc of cello concertos by exiled Jewish composers, ‘Voices in the Wilderness’ (almost the title...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020
Addressing a ‘friendly account’ of the Missa solemnis conducted by Masaaki Suzuki (6/19), Lindsay Kemp found that it left much...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020
Ronald Brautigam’s first recording of Beethoven’s piano concertos, a collaboration with Andrew Parrott and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, appeared in...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020
Sally Beamish’s Trumpet Concerto (2003) was inspired by Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Of course you would choose a trumpet – over...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2020
Gramophone has already singled out this young man as One to Watch (8/19) and from the shaping of his solo...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2020
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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