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 ever-inquiring BIS label begins another series devoted to the orchestral output of Helvi Leiviskä (1902 82). Variously composer, critic...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2024
An odd coupling, but you can just about get on board with the idea of two large pieces celebrating a...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2024
A Prayer to the Dynamo (2012) was commissioned by Matthew Patton of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s new music festival, who...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2024
As on its previous album (BIS2482) devoted to the music of Michael Jarrell (b1958), BIS has paired two of his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024
Markus Poschner’s recording of the 1877 version of the Second Symphony features a new edition by the Bruckner scholar Paul...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2024
With a conclusively established dating of its composition to 1869 – between Nos 1 and 2 – Bruckner’s first D...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024
Nemanja Radulović takes complete control of every aspect of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, playing the solo part while leading his own...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
For inspired craziness no 18th-century composer, surely, can touch Emanuel Bach. When Baron van Swieten, of Haydn Creation fame, commissioned...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2024
You know when every aspect of an album just sings? Well, this is one of those, and not only because...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024
Lowell Liebermann’s prowess at the keyboard usually takes a back seat to his prominence as a composer. He made up...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024
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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