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...
‘Singin’ Rhythm’ finds multi-percussionist Vivi Vassileva pursuing all directions at once, from marimba soloist to bandleader, in a cross-section of...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2019
Clarinet and marimba make an odd couple. Their timbres are almost diametric opposites – one warm and creamy, the other...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2019
At the heart of this recording of British post-Romantic cello miniatures is an exploration of music from that wonderfully fertile...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2019
Mi-Sa Yang and Jonas Vitaud have hopped over Mozart’s childhood piano and violin sonatas and gone straight for the gold...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2019
David Owen Norris plays a gloriously resonant Broadwood and his colleagues play appropriate 18th- (or 17th-) century instruments. The music...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2019
Bernhard Molique (1803-69) is one of those composers who, revered and highly respected in their time, have slipped between the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2019
This disc celebrates the 80th birthday of Heinz Holliger, and although it explores his interpretative gifts as a performer rather...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2019
Erika Fox – like Alexander Goehr, four years her senior – came to England with her family as a small...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2019
Originally issued in 2012 as a digital-only offering, this lovely Finzi programme now makes a welcome debut on silver disc....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2019
Gottfried Finger (1655-1730) is one of those figures you might know from mixed-composer discs but rarely find as a sole...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2019
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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