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...
It’s easy to imagine the peripatetic Italian guitarist and composer Francesco Corbetta (c1615-1681) cheerfully plucking and strumming his way through...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2024
If it did nothing else, Forkel’s origin story for the Goldberg Variations immortalised the name of Bach’s student, who would...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2024
Subtitled ‘symphonic colours of the woodwind orchestra’, Divine Art’s ‘Chromosphere’ is an engaging collection of attractive new works – all...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024
If I hear a recording this year more guaranteed to put a spring in my step than this, then 2024...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
The Cleveland Orchestra recorded only one Tchaikovsky symphony with their longtime music director George Szell (the Fifth in 1959 for...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2024
The star attraction in this attractive Suppé collection is the Fantasia symphonica, a recent discovery by the conductor Ola Rudner,...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2024
Not so long ago, in the words of writer and broadcaster Michael Oliver, Stravinsky’s elegant Concerto ‘generally sounded very nasty...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2024
BIS’s third recording of the four tone poems Sibelius based on the adventures of the hero Lemminkäinen from the Kalevala...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024
It’s good to see the Sgambati Piano Concerto given another dusting. As the first Romantic piano concerto composed by someone...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
Although a Bicentennial commission and premiered in New York, Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles … (1971 74) has only latterly...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2024
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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