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...
The belated issue of recordings by the Wiener Schubert Trio, after Schubert (8/11) then Chausson, Debussy and Rachmaninov, continues with...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2023
Musical alchemies are often forged in strange and unexpected ways, and this engaging album of music by Mozart, Pärt and...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2023
This is Ensemble Spinoza’s debut album, and I commend them for choosing to record Buxtehude’s Op 1. There is already...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2023
It’s probably fair to say that Anthony Burgess is still best known as the author of A Clockwork Orange. But...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2023
Beethoven’s three Op 1 Trios – surely the greatest opus 1 in musical history – are the work of a...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2023
JS Bach’s music continues to inspire all manner of innovative arrangements and reworkings, with examples from the past decade or...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2023
Performing ‘light’ (for want of a better term) music on period instruments is an idea whose time has come. Following...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2023
More Boult treasures from the radio archives, the pick of the present generous collection comprising his thrillingly powerful traversal with...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2023
In 1948 Weinberg shared the fate of his fellow composers in the Soviet Union, being castigated for supposed aesthetic sins...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2023
Recorded in September 2022 (the concluding Cello Concerto at a live concert in The Bridgewater Hall), early into Dobrinka Tabakova’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023
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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