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...
Benjamin Godard trained as a violinist before turning to composition. Though he soon expressed a marked preference as a performer...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2016
Philip Glass may have studied with two of the 20th century’s most revered teachers – Vincent Persichetti and Nadia Boulanger...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2016
‘Giovanni del Violoncello’ was the contemporary nickname awarded to the now-forgotten 18th-century Italian cellist-composer Giovanni Battista Costanzi (1704 78), giving...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2016
Plenty of new music has pretensions it can’t sustain. Not so Martin Butler’s. His output comes close to post-minimalism yet...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 07/2016
Here’s the second recording of Magnus Lindberg’s Era to be issued this year. The piece was written for the RCO,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2016
This disc contains premiere recordings of the three works commissioned by the Utah Symphony to celebrate its 75th birthday, and...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 07/2016
‘It is not necessary to add sugar to honey.’ Manfred Honeck quotes his predecessor as music director at the Pittsburgh...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2016
Intentionally or not, Masaaki Suzuki’s first foray into 20th-century repertoire on disc recalls that of Neville Marriner, whose 1960s pairing...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 07/2016
The first instalment of Strauss from Andrew Davis and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra had the Four Last Songs as its...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2016
Premiered in Norfolk, Connecticut, in 1915 by the pianist Harold Bauer, Stanford’s Piano Concerto No 2, actually composed in 1911,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 07/2016
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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