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...
There is no shortage of excellent recordings of Messiaen’s second substantial organ work, La Nativité du Seigneur, of 1935. The...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2017
I’ve never met David Matthews, but he appears to be a generous soul. There’s hardly a piece in this collection...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017
Liszt’s peripatetic life seems to invite travelogue programming. Dejan Lazic´’s new Onyx CD touches on several places that inspired important...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2017
Naxos’s intrepid march through all Liszt’s piano music, begun 20 years ago, has now reached Vol 46. If Leslie Howard’s...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2017
Alessandro Taverna chooses to play up the contrasts between Debussy and Ravel in this recital, with the latter at his...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2017
Organists devising a chronological programme invariably come unstuck in the period between Bach and Mendelssohn. The orchestral symphony, the string...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2017
The title ‘Heatwave’ might well conjure rather a different music from that for flute, oboe and piano, though this disc...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2017
As a felicitous appendix to the compendious boxes from DG and Warner (5/17), this Testament release of Rostropovich in his...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2017
Zelenka’s six long and luxurious trio sonatas for oboes, bassoon and continuo were first brought into modern-day light in the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2017
If the title and indeed often unearthly content of Messiaen’s best-known chamber work can lead us to listen to it...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill 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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