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...
Edward Gardner and Vasily Petrenko have been taking their Norwegian orchestras through plenty of Elgar in concert while recording the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2019
It was in the late summer of 1932 that Elgar began jotting down ideas for The Spanish Lady, a ‘Grand...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2019
The Singapore Symphony’s Debussy first impressed me with an excellent La mer under Lan Shui in an imaginatively programmed 2007...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2019
These performances were recorded live at the opening concerts of The Orchestra of the Americas’ 2018 European tour. Overall, the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2019
According to Michael Haas’s invaluable Forbidden Music (Yale UP: 2013), Walter Braunfels chose mental rather than physical emigration after the...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2019
Brahms visited Switzerland frequently. In August 1856 he met the music publisher Jakob Melchior Rieter-Biedermann on the first of 14...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2019
Edgard Varèse, Peter Sculthorpe, Michael Finnissy, Steve Reich – several composers have written music that has drawn inspiration from the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2019
Bach’s pair of first cousins once-removed, Johann Christoph and Michael, have long been acknowledged as key influences in Johann Sebastian’s...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2019
Whatever this disc’s shortcomings – and they are few – it ranks among the most charming and engaging debuts I...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2019
Nicky Spence’s last solo Hyperion outing, on the final volume of the label’s Strauss Lieder series, revealed how his voice...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley 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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