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...
Born into a Jewish family in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) in 1915, Grigory Frid studied music at the Moscow Conservatory,...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW2019
For their first ‘Secret Fauré’ disc (12/18), Ivor Bolton and the Basel Symphony Orchestra surveyed the composer’s incidental music and...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW2019
They may have been plundered after the USSR’s demise but Soviet radio archives continue to yield gems such as these...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2019
On first acquaintance, I found Edward Gardner’s fleet, streamlined readings of Brahms’s First and Third Symphonies straightforward almost to a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2019
Hans Gál’s Concertino for violin and string orchestra (1939) was one of the first works he composed in Britain following...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2019
The CV of Derek Bermel (b1967) is as varied and colourful as his music. A clarinettist as well as a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2019
The intriguingly named Sinfonia Grange au Lac (literally ‘The Barn on the Lake’) bows in here under its first mentor...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2019
Beethoven wrote the incidental music to Egmont while in the process of transforming Leonore (1805 06) into Fidelio (1814) and...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2019
‘To be calm, to be serene!’ writes Henry David Thoreau at the end of his poem ‘Reflections’, the first text...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW2019
Rachmaninov’s piano trios have been extremely lucky on disc, with dozens of world-class versions (both sonically and interpretatively speaking) from...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2019
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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