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 someone who had never even heard of Johann Schenck, two discs totalling almost two hours of his music is...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2024
Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) died at the age of 38 from complications following childbirth, yet the Croatian composer left behind a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
Hackles might rise at the idea of tampering with Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, those piano gems from that fecund period...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024
Funny, the unconscious prejudices one acquires. Not that I’ve ever thought of the Nash Ensemble as anything other than excellent;...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2024
Two sonatas written in 1883, Strauss’s the work of a precociously gifted 16-year-old who would up his game four years...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2024
The rise of Julius Eastman as one of the most significant composers of his generation remains one of the most...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
Florence Price’s Second Quartet (1935) may not, quite, reach the level of Dvořák’s celebrated American Quartet but it is a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2024
Long in the making perhaps but, 42 years and 20 releases on, Bridge has fulfilled its plan for a Complete...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2024
For evidence of the blurred boundaries that keep shifting between music for the concert hall and compositions written for film...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
In his June 1937 editorial, Compton Mackenzie remarked that Elgar once told him that he considered Busoni ‘the greatest musical...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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