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 second volume of MDG’s survey of Hanns Eisler’s songs covers the period from after his return from American exile...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2018
A game of two halves in which the first might be more noteworthy but the second is far better. Paul...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2018
With forces a fraction of those envisaged by the composer and not a single Czech or English native among the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2018
Though scored by Vaughan Williams with the Huddersfield Choral Society in mind, it transpires that Dona nobis pacem need lose...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2018
There are strong arguments for opening out the themes of the Passion by means not of a staging transplanted from...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2018
You get your money’s worth here: Estonia’s flagship orchestra, two of the finest choirs in the Baltics (and, therefore, the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2017
With every disc they release there’s something new to like about Capella de la Torre – oboist Katharina Bäuml’s Austria-based...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2018
For openers Vilde Frang treats us to a chirpy morsel by Franz Ries, La capricciosa, a piece that as a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2018
The heart gives a little leap at the prospect of Dvořák chamber music, especially when it comes from a duo...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2017
This recording of music for cello solo and two cellos by the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov is a disc of...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2018
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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