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 second volume of John Wilson’s ‘celebration’ (for that’s what this series surely is) of Richard Rodney Bennett’s...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2018
Much as I admire Benjamin Zander’s gifts as a musical proselytiser and polemicist, I approached the two discs’ worth of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2018
Michael Sanderling leads a spick and span Beethoven Fifth. The long streams of quavers in the first movement line up...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2018
There is a pleasing quality to Fabio Bonizzoni’s first volume of Bach harpsichord concertos, which achieves the difficult task of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2018
Kalevi Aho’s stated aim in his 2016 Timpani Concerto was, as in his much-loved Percussion Concerto (2011), to have the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2018
Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers was much maligned for years. Writing in Le Figaro after its 1863 premiere, Benjamin Jouvin dismissed...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2018
Happily for Vivaldi lovers, the long-stalled Naïve Edition is now back on track, complete with those chic cover portraits mingling...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2018
A joyous upwards flourish opens Richard Egarr’s Byrd recital, added by him to the beginning of a 50-second Prelude for...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2018
My first, instinctive, impression of the first movement in this live recording – made in 1995 – was that it...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2018
This is a project that has been 20 years in the making. In 1996 Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2018
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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