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 a concerto that gives a fair share of the heavy lifting to the orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony, under...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2016
Dutton’s disc (with its two premiere recordings) is already the second recording released this year devoted entirely to the music...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2016
I much enjoyed the first instalment of Beethoven’s piano concertos with this all-Dutch line-up, which boldly began with the Fourth...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2016
‘Eccentric very!’ commented Edward German upon reading the manuscript score of Arnold Bax’s Variations for orchestra. Completed in June 1904...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2016
The concertos for multiple harpsichords from the 1730s are, for the most part, transcriptions from lost earlier (or near-contemporaneous) sources...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2016
Neither of the ensembles on these two new Brandenburg sets is among the star names in the field, but the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2016
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs is one of those names you used to come across in piano stools: a very English petit-maître...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2016
Andrew Parrott’s past recordings of Taverner count among his finest achievements, and it is little short of scandalous that they...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2016
The first sighting of Benjamin Appl came a few years ago when clips were posted on YouTube of his appearance...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2016
Rivers tend to be men, but Father Rhine only had daughters to entertain him in his dotage. Those women are...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 05/2016
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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