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...
The playing of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s wind section was a highlight of Robin Ticciati’s recent recording of the Brahms...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2018
The chorale melody was the cantus firmus of Bach’s art, its generative, motivating force, its divine metaphor. It serves a...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2018
This backwards-looking survey of Hans Abrahamsen’s four string quartets, starting with the most recent from 2012 and finishing with the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2018
At the time of going to press all six conductors featured on this set are still with us, but reminders...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2018
‘The common denominator in all of these works is the rhythm which is highly articulated, flexible and energised’, writes Andrés...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2018
You could never accuse Daniel Hope of going for the obvious. Rather than record yet another album of Mozart concertos,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2018
As Royal Academy of Music Principal Jonathan Freeman-Attwood reminds us in the booklet for this recording, performances of Gabrieli’s ensemble...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2018
Fast approaching its centenary, the Donaueschinger Musiktage continues as a beacon for European music of what might still be called...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2018
The booklet note compares Erkki-Sven Tüür’s Symphony No 8 with the process of ‘motifs growing to symphonic proportions’ at work...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2018
The opening of this tremendous piece reveals so much about a performance. Before the invasion, before the siege of Leningrad,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2018
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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