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...
For a pianist who usually takes great chances in concert, Sandro Russo’s square phrasing in Chopin’s Fourth Scherzo’s Trio and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2020
The three works here were all composed in 2016. As in the previous release of music by Lisa Bielawa to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020
When the highlights of Alison Balsom’s last album, ‘Jubilo’ (12/16), were its handful of works recorded not on a modern...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2020
Seven brief homages to Haydn form the centre of this programme: six from 1909 by leading French composers of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020
From their opus numbers you would imagine that Weinberg’s four chamber symphonies are late works. In fact the first three...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2020
Beyond reissues, the Canadian period-instrument orchestra Tafelmusik have been conspicuously quiet in the recordings domain in recent years, despite having...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2020
The rediscovery of Vaughan Williams’s symphonies seems to be going from strength to strength these days – and with Andrew...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2020
George Li’s first disc for Warner Classics (10/17) was one which, with a few reservations, I felt marked an impressive...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2020
I gave a warm welcome to the first instalment of Vasily Petrenko’s Strauss series with the Oslo Philharmonic (8/19), and...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2020
David Zinman led the way; now here is Maxim Emelyanychev waltzing through the ‘Great’ C major with all the repeats...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020
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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