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...
Rémy Ballot’s Bruckner recordings for Gramola (Symphonies Nos 3, 8 and 9) have thus far been notable for emulating the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2017
This first instalment of a new Bruckner series by Andris Nelsons and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for DG couples the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2017
Ilya Gringolts plays with a ferocity that – in tandem with taut rhythmic control – adroitly avoids even the slightest...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2017
Jason Bergman’s adventurous recital of trumpet music written or revised since 2003, mostly premiere recordings, ranges from Richard Peaslee’s sad,...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2017
Mozart made it possible for musicians of many instrumental stripes to bask in his artistic genius. On this new CD,...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07/2017
The American soprano Susan Narucki was so horrified by the human trafficking rampant on the border between the United States...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07
Like its title, John King’s extended string quartet Free Palestine (2013 14; by my calculation the 22nd he has written)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2017
All three of Susan Kander’s works on this new MSR Classics release have personal ties, even beyond the fact that...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2017
Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s first CD devoted to Anthony Paul De Ritis (b1968) was warmly received in these pages (10/12)....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2017
Martin Boykan (b1931), a native of New York City, is one of the US’s most distinguished composers. A pupil of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2017
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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