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...
Bernard Rands may be one of the most patient operatic composers of all time. From initial idea to first production,...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2017
Martinů’s three cello sonatas were preceded by a clutch of suites and movements written in Paris (mostly) in 1930-31. The...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2017
Since Gloriæ Dei Cantores are one of North America’s finest non-professional choirs with at least 50 CDs to their credit,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2017
William Appling (1932-2008) was a highly respected teacher and superb choral director who influenced many lives. He discovered Scott Joplin’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2017
There is cool in American maverick music like Lou Harrison, who couldn’t resist the mainstream, and then there is cool...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2017
My heart skipped a beat when this new offering from La Serenissima and Adrian Chandler landed on my desk, such...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2017
A most unusual account of the Elgar Concerto, one that’s both musically gripping and recorded at relatively close quarters. The...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2017
Muzio Clementi did his posthumous reputation no favours by turning out reams of autopilot sonatinas for schoolroom use. Mozart’s withering...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2017
In their separate but extremely effusive booklet essays, both Harry Christophers and the work’s dedicatee, John Studzinski, describe James MacMillan’s...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2017
Why ‘Bologna 1666’? Well, thankfully not because there was a fire there. But the date is a touch misleading, since...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2017
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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