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...
Overshadowed by his symphonies, Panufnik’s string quartets have begun to find favour – this disc by the Apollon Musagète Quartet...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2019
Recordings of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s harpsichord music are not rare; recordings of her chamber music are. Yet in...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2019
Stephen Waarts paired Schumann and Bartók for his debut recording because, he writes in a booklet note, ‘intense expressivity’ is...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2019
DG’s ‘Recomposed’ series was launched 13 years ago with a disc featuring electropop-style arrangements of classic 19th-century orchestral recordings by...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2019
Revision is the key element in this programme of music by Tom Armstrong (b1968). At its most straightforward, in the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2019
It was surely only a matter of time before Christian Thielemann was invited to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2019
The fragmentary nature of Zimmermann’s pre emptive vocal symphony on Die Soldaten reflects that of his entire artistic outlook –...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2019
Within the limitations of the light music genre, Haydn Wood must be viewed as a composer of efficiency and, at...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2019
Only a few months ago I reviewed Christian Lindberg’s brilliant account of Stenhammar’s Second Symphony for BIS, a follow-up to...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2019
Two of today’s leading young cellists (born within six months of each other in 1981) alight almost simultaneously on Schumann’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2019
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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