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 longest of Handel’s five settings of the Te Deum canticle was probably composed in 1718 or perhaps early 1719...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2019
‘My hero is Benjamin Britten.’ This affirmation comes in a discussion from 2011 between Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Andrew Palmer, and...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2019
Karsten Storck is not a name I’ve previously encountered in the music of Bruckner but this performance of the F...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2019
The young American baritone John Chest has already received lavish praise in these pages. Tim Ashley described his contribution to...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2019
It’s barely a few years ago that the Berlioz champion and biographer David Cairns placed what was virtually an advertisement...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2019
The sudden death in February 2016 of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky came as a major shock not just...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2019
In the same year that Berklee Press released Mike Block’s book of 28 non classical cello études and he joined...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2019
The Vivaldi Project consists of three superb string players – Elizabeth Field, Allison Edberg Nyquist and Stephanie Vial – who...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2019
At the heart of this programme is an impressively virtuoso performance, on unaccompanied horn, of Bach’s Solo Flute Partita, BWV1013....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2019
Art songs being among the most intimate of musical expressions, this recording of 24 such works shows Stanley Grill to...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2019
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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