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...
In June 1950 Kathleen Ferrier made her Viennese debut in a series of concerts at the Musikverein as part of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2019
A near-contemporary of Gibbons,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2019
Originally released on the Phoenix label in 2005, this all-Schoenberg disc gains a new lease of life courtesy of Navona....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017
David Sanford (b1963) is an alumnus of the University of Northern Colorado, New England Conservatory and Princeton. He has received...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2019
Ian Krouse’s powerful Armenian Requiem, commissioned by Vatsche Barsoumian’s Lark Music Society, draws on traditional liturgical chant and poetry to...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2019
Gagaku, the music of the Imperial Japanese Court, has exerted a fascination on Western composers for many decades, not least...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2019
You have to hand it to New York’s Park Avenue Chamber Symphony and their intrepid leader David Bernard for sheer...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2019
I welcome Il Giardino Armonico’s commitment to filling our modern ears with such strange sounds with, well, open ears. As...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2019
The titular ‘glitterati’ are a disparate group of musicians linked only by the fact that they travelled and worked away...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2019
The title refers to a ‘golden age of violin playing’, nebulously defined in the booklet by ‘the artistry of the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2019
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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