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...
This mini-series of cantatas for solo soprano encompasses nine works of exceptional quality and variety, the initial volume of three...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2017
Of late, if Bach’s St Anne Prelude and Fugue (aka Prelude and ‘St Anne’s’ Fugue, as on an MSR Classics...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2017
The booklet tells one precious little about this choral cantata but the composer’s website fills in the gaps. Thus, Seven...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2017
Writing music for friends and colleagues must be one of the greatest joys of the composer’s art. Here it is...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2017
The intense emotional worlds the music of Mark Nowakowski inhabits pay tribute to the struggles and enduring spirit of the...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2017
Hindemith’s 1942 contrapuntal tour de force Ludus tonalis turns up less frequently on disc than certain other large-scale piano epics....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2017
Subtlety is the pervasive quality that pianist Aki Takahashi conveys so luminously on this disc of works by Peter Garland....
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2017
Among the many composers who have cultivated the piano étude, ranging from Steibelt, Clementi, Hummel, Cramer and Czerny to Ligeti,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2017
This is the second recording by the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, a summer training programme for conservatory students. It’s as...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2017
The Neapolitan castrato Nicola Grimaldi (1673-1732), nicknamed Nicolino (or Nicolini), studied at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, first appeared...
Reviewed by David Vickers 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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