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...
A native of North Carolina, Dan Locklair (b1949) celebrates his 70th birthday this year, and celebratory is the word that...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2019
Gregory Hutter wrote these 10 songs for chorus during what he described as ‘a challenging creative period’. But while each...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: AW2019
The Australian composer Margaret Brandman (b1951) graduated from both the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Sydney University. Her CV also...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2019
David Fallows called them a ‘dream team’ (11/13), Fabrice Fitch described their fourth Machaut album in this series as ‘one...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2019
What we have here is by my calculations Christian Tetzlaff’s third recording of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, the first two under...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2019
Imogen Cooper has been travelling and she’d like us to come along. For an artist whose name is frequently associated...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2019
If you pan back to 1954 in search of the year’s finest music, Vaughan Williams’s Tuba Concerto and Lutosławski’s Concerto...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2019
Rumours have been circling for a while of a hush-hush project from John Wilson; of a new super-orchestra hand-picked from...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2019
It’s a crucial pleasure to be able to keep in touch now with the latest productions from Wagner HQ thanks...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2019
Mariss Jansons has played many hands of The Queen of Spades. Within the past decade alone, the Latvian conductor has...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 10/2019
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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