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...
The subtitle of this disc, ‘World War II and Holocaust Inspired Sonatas’, raises a question: in what way were any...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2019
Luigi Perrachio (1883 1966) was born in Turin, where from 1925 he taught piano and later composition at the Conservatorio....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2019
Benjamin Zander’s detailed immersion in both the letter and the spirit of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony yielded a generally excellent live...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2019
Laurence Vittes, in his review of Garth Baxter’s songs ‘Ask the Moon’ (5/18), rightly categorised his idiom as ‘simple, straightforward,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2019
Wilhelmina Smith’s recording underlines one of the fundamental differences between these two composers born in Finland just six years apart....
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2019
Musical nationalism is once more a hot potato in Europe and particularly in Scotland, where certain corners of the SNP...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2019
Time was, about three decades back, that you knew what you were getting with a Naxos disc. You wouldn’t necessarily...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019
Manchester can be an unaccommodating place in winter and the city’s own grey, off-Pennine damp hangs over this live January...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2019
By coincidence, I am reviewing this new recording of Clara Wieck Schumann’s Concerto in A minor as the city of...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2019
This is Toccata Classics’ fourth CD of music by the American Arnold Rosner (1945-2013), and I think it is the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2019
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...
If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.