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...
These recordings of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Septet were made in 2019 during Leonidas Kavakos’s tenure as artist-in-residence with the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under chief conductor Thomas Dausgaard launch a series coupling contrasting works by Bartók, this first...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2020
Kati Debretzeni has been a respected leader of ensembles such as the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestra of the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2020
The oboe concertos – CPE Bach at his most amenable – get prime billing on the jewel case. Yet it’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2020
Antheil was barely into his twenties and studying with Ernest Bloch when he wrote his First Symphony (1923), which was...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020
With some discs, you can just tell that everything’s going to go like a dream. And it’s not just that...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2019
Contrary to the suggestion of its title, Daniel Dennett’s book From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2019
This is Martin Helmchen and Andrew Manze’s first volume in a promised complete survey of Beethoven’s concertos. Yes, yet another...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2019
You’re attending a grand ball. A beautiful young lady has caught your eye. Dare you? Nervously, you inch towards her...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2019
The Chicago Gargoyle Brass and Organ Ensemble (you will have to go far to find such a wonderfully named band)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2019
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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