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...
Sakari Oramo’s recent Ostrobothnian CO version of Britten’s Frank Bridge Variations (Alba, 9/16) served up plenty of food for thought....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2017
This is a recording made at concerts Rudolf Buchbinder gave with Zubin Mehta and the VPO in the Goldener Saal...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 02/2017
For Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto to sound effective the listener must be able to feel utterly at home in the work,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017
How many careless shoppers, I wonder, will buy this disc thinking it contains the four Ouvertures (or Orchestral Suites) of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2017
Sebastian Fagerlund’s violin concerto Darkness in Light mightily impressed me on disc (5/15) and his no less involving bassoon concerto...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2017
Like so many 16th-century instrumental tutors, Sylvestro Ganassi’s La Fontegara (1535) begins by stating that all musical instruments are inferior...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2017
The latest release from the admirable English Music Festival’s in-house label is a recital of songs and chamber music by...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2017
The disc’s charismatic title comes from a line in the first song of The Strand Settings – evocative in its...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2017
When the Jewish Austrian composer Marcel Tyberg was arrested by the Gestapo at his Italian home in 1944 it did...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2017
Even in the English-speaking world, where Sibelius has mostly enjoyed a high reputation, his vocal music remains undervalued. The language...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2017
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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