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...
Virgil Thomson said it best: ‘The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW17
Beethoven and Brahms’s clarinet trios make a superb pair. They share the same instrumentation, of course, yet also serve as foils...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW17
It’s a comparatively rare event for an artist to be afforded the luxury of recording a major work for a second time....
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW17
The chief work on BIS’s fourth CD devoted to the music of John Pickard (b1963) is his Fifth and most...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW17
Rarely have I been as moved by Strauss’s ‘Study for 23 solo strings’, his in memoriam to a severely bruised culture and to bombed...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW17
The music of Francesco Barsanti (c1690-1775) normally only makes it on to a recording when it shows its Scottish accent....
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW17
Brahms’s Third Sonata has been a calling card for Nelson Freire since the earliest days – for his farewell recital in Rio de...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW17
The face of Martin Luther stares out from the cover of this latest disc from the Choir of Clare College,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW17
William Lawes is better known for his instrumental music than for vocal music, and his brother Henry’s reputation today rests...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW17
This enjoyable recording, the first of an intended series on music in Baltic countries, presents a series of Lutheran cantatas written...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW17
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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