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...
For this final instalment in its multinational Lassus series, Musique en Wallonie turns to the Gramophone Award-winning ensemble Vox Luminis....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2016
Édouard Lalo wrote some 23 songs between 1848 and 1887, a significant contribution to his smallish but invariably distinguished output....
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2016
These seldom-recorded duets and trios are masterpieces of miniature form. La Risonanza’s latest Handelian foray includes a sublime rendition of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2016
The latest release in Palazetto Bru Zane’s Prix de Rome series focuses on Paul Dukas, music’s ultimate perfectionist, whose experience...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2016
We are lucky that Anthony Rolfe Johnson left such a durable legacy of recordings, but new additions are still welcome....
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2016
Sydney-born, London-based classical saxophonist Amy Dickson’s latest release is a terrific musical tribute to her home country, comprising premiere recordings...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2016
They hadn’t heard of global warming in the time of Rebel, Marais and Rameau, and to come across this two-disc...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2016
The Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks (who turns 70 this April) first encountered the Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta when he accepted...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2016
‘Tchaikovsky Swan Lake’, declares the booklet cover to this Sony CD. Caveat emptor. What you get is a concert suite....
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2016
The unusual trajectory of Mélodie Zhao’s recording career began with a set of Chopin Etudes, recorded when she was 13,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2016
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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