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...
This interesting new recording of Liszt concertante works with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra under Julien Masmondet is the orchestral...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW18
Franz Lachner (1803 90) is probably best remembered for his important position in the musical life of Munich, where he...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW18
David Hackbridge Johnson’s vigorously dark Tenth Symphony (2013) is in a single, imaginatively scored movement running for some 33 minutes....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW18
There’s some entertaining, dazzling, smile-inducing, toe-tapping music here but I can’t give you a cast-iron promise that there’s much more....
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW18
Bernstein the conductor may be best remembered for his championing of Mahler and the American composers of his own time...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2018
The song-cycle Poems of Life (2017) is the heart of this well-played, sumptuously scored programme. Setting 12 poems by Judith...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW18
Howard Shelley’s new recording with the Ulster Orchestra of three of Jan Ladislav Dussek’s concertos is a sequel to their...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW18
A few words of introduction from the man himself (Bernstein in conversation with Humphrey Burton) preface this performance of perhaps...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW18
For the sixth instalment of their ‘Resound’ project – Beethoven’s orchestral works performed in the Viennese venues where they were...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW/2018
The Amsterdam Sinfonietta’s latest release reverts to the concept of their Brahms/Schoenberg and Mahler/Beethoven albums (8/11, 1/12) in that it...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW/2018
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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