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...
In a lovely piece of programming, Ron-Dirk Entleutner and the young musicians of the Landesjugendchor Sachsen and the Jugendsinfonieorchester Leipzig...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2017
If you need a tonic, some relief from the insanity of the wider world (I write this in the wake...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2017
I can’t find any evidence to corroborate the booklet note’s suggestion that Brett Dean’s trumpet concerto Dramatis personae is a...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2017
Viol consort and not modern chamber orchestra appears to be the model for the first three contrapuncti of The Art...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2017
Signum Classics’ advocacy of the music of Jonathan Dove continues apace with this superb new chamber/vocal release, recorded in the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2017
Waking from a troubling dream late one night, I looked to lutenist Matthew Wadsworth’s exquisite new recording for solace. It...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2017
Piano fantasias may have started off as essentially improvisational in nature, yet the genre evolved into something less clearly defined,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2017
It’s a good idea to read Kenneth Hamilton’s booklet before you listen to his disc. Not just because he is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2017
Percussionists, and percussion recitals, are hardly uncommon these days but, with ‘Attraction’, Christoph Sietzen has put together a collection of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2017
These aren’t quite the ‘complete’ Walter Gieseking 1950s solo studio recordings of Brahms, Schubert and Schumann, in that the pianist’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2017
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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