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...
Carl Vollrath (b1931) was a new name to me when this delightful disc of piano trios dropped through my letterbox....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019
Now in his early forties, Matthew Quayle has amassed a catalogue of almost 50 works in a range of genres....
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2019
David Owen Carpenter (b1972) was born in Poughkeepsie, NY, though is now resident in Philadelphia, and is an alumnus of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019
Nearly everything about this disc arrives like a bolt out of the blue. The poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was quite...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2019
As debut solo albums go, the Korean cellist Hee-Young Lim’s Abbey Road-recorded programme of French cello concertos – with the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2019
What a welcome sight it has been for a second disc from Decca’s young Dutch recorder champion Lucie Horsch to...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2019
The Tippett who wrote the Third and Fourth Symphonies between 1970 and 1977 was, inevitably, a rather different composer from...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2019
Whoever said that old forms were dead? The concerto has enjoyed a new lease of life during the past few...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2019
There is only the most tenuous connection between the two main works on this disc: Russia pre- and post-Revolution. Both...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2019
We’ve come to expect a clear-sighted brilliance and technical excellence from this series. It’s become something of a benchmark in...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2019
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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