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 appears to be the second time on CD that David Alan Miller pairs John Harbison and the late Steven...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2018
Michael Daugherty (b1954) has 20 concertos to his name and this highly enjoyable Naxos disc draws together three of his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2018
At a time when presidential character has become a focus of international debate, Victoria Bond’s optimistic quartet of narrated musical...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2018
Creating a concept quartet album takes more than simply giving it a title. But this is something of a speciality...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2018
Don’t judge this disc by its cover. The artwork is the usual moody monochrome of a young soloist in a...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2018
The premise of Jonathan Freeman-Attwood and Daniel-Ben Pienaar’s latest reimagining of the music of the past for modern trumpet and...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2018
He may be held in affection by those who knew him but the music of Alan Ridout (1934 96) has...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2018
It has been quite a month for concept albums from string quartets. Having also reviewed the Dudok’s imaginative ‘Solitude’ (see...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2018
The cover of this disc of string quartets by James MacMillan is a simple illustration of a dense, web-like tangle...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2018
Robin Holloway once stated that as a young composer he wanted to be ‘a Modern among the Moderns’. Now in...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2018
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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