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...
Born in Kennington, south London, Henry Cotter Nixon (1842-1907) studied privately with Henry Smart, Charles Steggall and George Alexander Macfarren....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
‘Of course Mozart loved the flute!’ declares Philippe Bernold in his booklet-notes, tackling head-on a tired and frustrated Mozart’s notorious...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017
I’m not going to beat around the bush: the reason to hear this recording – and hear it you should...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017
Two violin concertos – Tchaikovsky’s and Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole – show very different sides of Augustin Hadelich. Recorded in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017
Like Clementi and Cherubini, Franz Krommer (1759-1831) was a contemporary of Mozart who outlived Beethoven and Schubert. By the time...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2017
You might have heard of František Jiránek, the Czech violinist and composer who was born in 1698 on a Czech...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 03/2017
Edward Gardner directs the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in a traversal of Holst’s The Planets that genuinely excites...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
The American pianist Andrew von Oeyen has been around for some time (b1979, orchestral debut aged 10). He has, I...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017
Add Celso Garrido-Lecca (b1926) to the long list of Latin American composers whose music deserves our attention. I’d heard his...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017
Add Celso Garrido-Lecca (b1926) to the long list of Latin American composers whose music deserves our attention. I’d heard his...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton 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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