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 is the Czech pianist Jan Bartoš’s second Supraphon release. Last year he recorded two Mozart concertos for the label...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2018
Ashley Fripp first came to my attention via a 2013 disc containing polished though small-scale interpretations of both Chopin concertos...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW18
Thomas Allen has long been an admirer of the ‘Great American Songbook’ and has always wanted to ‘give it a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW18
This somewhat uneven collection of 21 self-styled ‘Songs of Folk and Lore’ is held together by a booklet note which...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW18
It took me a while to get my head round this release. At first sight it appears a straightforward presentation...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW18
Wilhelm Stenhammar established the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra as one of the finest in the Nordic region as its first Chief...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW18
Carousel is arguably the most beautiful of all Broadway’s ‘Golden Age’ scores; Rodgers’s finest hour. Of that I, personally, am...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW18
Twenty-something composer Owain Park is very much the rising star on the British choral scene, carving out a reputation as...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW18
As Jessica Duchen observes in her warmly sympathetic booklet notes, choral music presently accounts for over two-thirds of Roxanna Panufnik’s...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW18
Hats off to Lyrita for this second helping of choral offerings by Gloucester-born Michael Hurd (1928-2006), a much-loved scholar, lecturer,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW18
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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