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...
It is nearly 20 years since Arnaldo Cohen inaugurated Naxos’s series of all Liszt’s solo piano music (6/97). Leslie Howard,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2016
This latest release from ak Ozmo again demonstrates the London-based lutenist and conductor’s searching intellect and wry imagination. But it...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2016
Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) was a man born out of his time, musically and physically. He had no time for atonal...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2016
To call Sokolov’s Schubert heavy-laden would certainly be no exaggeration. However, to say, as the gushy booklet essay does of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2016
Just over a year ago, Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent released an album of music by William Byrd (‘Infelix...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2016
What at first glance might seem a little contrived about this programme quickly reveals itself to be a rather brilliant...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2016
Recorders and sopranos – it might not be Cav/Pag or Gheorghiu and Alagna, but it’s still one of music’s great...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2016
If Humperdinck and Hindemith seem like odd bedfellows, try adding Finzi, Berg and Ravel to the mix and you’ll find...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2016
It must be difficult being a young Järvi. Whenever conducting brothers Paavo and Kristjan record a new disc, there’s every...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2016
‘Terrible night with dreams of death,’ noted the young Schumann in 1829 after reading Manfred. Nineteen years later, in a...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2016
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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