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...
‘I still don’t understand how there can be no word for “please” and no phrase for “nice to meet you”,’...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2016
No one takes on the Nielsen Violin Concerto lightly. Its technical demands are not a whit less than those of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2016
‘One is right always to be more than a little cautious about pleading in favour of the admission of a...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2016
Jennifer Pike works hard, perhaps against the grain, to counter the impression of prettiness that Mendelssohn’s music still leaves in...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2016
The two early Ives symphonies recorded by the same team (5/15) are relatively plain sailing compared with some of these...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 02/2016
The music of Toshio Hosokawa (b1955) is often said to synthesise Eastern philosophy (Zen Buddhism) with Western aesthetics (Expressionism). But...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2016
Beast Sampler was well received at last year’s Proms and you can hear in its glacial coolness and spatial breadth...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2016
Over 30 years may separate Górecki’s Third and Fourth Symphonies but it would be misleading to attribute such a long...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2016
This is Ginastera’s centenary year. If he died way too young (aged just 67, in 1983), his legacy still leaves...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2016
Rebecca Miller follows up her disc of music by the American composer Henry Kimball Hadley (Dutton, 10/15) with a symphony...
Reviewed by David Threasher 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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