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 case you cast an eye across the movement contents of Op 130 and feel short-changed because Beethoven’s rewritten finale...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2017
This generous coupling of two RVW masterworks reprises – and outshines – Andrew Davis’s own Teldec British Line offering from...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
None of the 91 composers featured on the previous 69 volumes in Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series has been a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017
The young French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau made his debut on Erato in 2015 with ‘Imagine’, a recital of Bach keyboard...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2017
Arguments about period versus modern instruments in Baroque repertoire may reign forever, but performances in recent decades have proved that...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2017
The Waldland Ensemble have two missions: expanding the repertoire for clarinet, viola and piano, and raising awareness of conservation issues....
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2017
Robert Paterson (b1970) is an award-winning composer (as well as a percussionist and conductor) from Buffalo in New York State....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2017
It is one of the joys of a recording like this that it brings a remote moment in classical music...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2017
‘Timber!’ is what lumberjacks yell to alert colleagues that a tree is falling. But there’s no need to run away...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2017
First released on the Dorian label in 1999, Andrew Rangell’s complete Chopin Mazurkas cycle gains a new lease of catalogue...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017
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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