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...
Prokofiev’s demanding, conceptually lopsided Cello Concerto, failed at the box office and has been little heard. Indeed, the only significant...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2015
If Avi Avital’s intention is to do for the mandolin what Andrés Segovia did for the classical guitar, he’s already...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2015
John Luther Adams’s status as one of new music’s most original musical voices was recognised last year when he was...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2015
Claire-Marie Le Guay is a pianist of broad interests, with repertoire ranging right up to the present day, but this...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2015
Cellist Matt Haimovitz prefaces his period-instrument Beethoven cycle with an absorbing essay, writing that ‘the consideration is no longer the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2015
A neck injury may have forced Julian Lloyd Webber to retire from the concert platform as a soloist but this...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2015
To what extent is one listening to the ‘arrangement’ rather than the piece? It’s a question which has frequently arisen...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2015
We hear so many Vivaldi operas these days that we may be at risk of forgetting where we came in...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2015
As with his Avie solo debut disc (1/14), Benjamin Hochman’s all-variations follow-up release juxtaposes old and new works. Or rather...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2015
The pianist tells us in his introductory note that he has performed this programme many times in concert, ‘built around...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2015
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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