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...
Northern Flowers continues to unearth much of interest out of the Soviet musical archives. This latest release features three concertos...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2019
This engaging disc of Mendelssohn’s overtures forms the final volume of Edward Gardner and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2019
Pretty much every major symphonist from Brahms to Maxwell Davies leaves a trace on the Ninth Symphony of David Matthews....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2019
There is always the exciting prospect, when presented with a disc of an unknown work by some neglected composer, of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2019
Rarely heard in the concert hall, d’Indy’s characterful and richly scored music is heavily reliant on recordings for its continued...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2019
Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players are no strangers to Johann Baptist Cramer, having recorded the Mannheim-born, London-raised composer/pianist/entrepeneur’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2019
In the wake of Charles Richard-Hamelin’s second prize at the 2015 competition in Warsaw, the Chopin Institute released an impressive...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2019
The inspiration behind Havergal Brian’s Seventh Symphony (completed in 1948 and, clocking in at nearly 40 minutes, the last of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2019
It was only recently that the first complete edition of Bach’s multiple keyboard concertos played on modern instruments came our...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2019
Damascus-born and New York-domiciled, Kinan Azmeh enjoys a formidable reputation as a clarinettist and composer. Among his own works, Suite...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2019
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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