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...
‘Zemlinsky: Complete String Quartets’ is a slightly different deal to Chandos’s last packaging of similar repertoire, in performances by the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2015
As Roy Goodman’s Brandenburg Consort and others have proved in the past, six Concerti armonici published anonymously at The Hague...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015
La Rêveuse have hitherto recorded 17th-century music featuring viols, such as Locke, Purcell and Henry Lawes, but now they turn...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015
We do not hear enough Josef Suk. That thought strikes me whenever the rare opportunities arise to listen to the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2015
Szymanowski’s pieces are likely to be less well known to collectors than Stravinsky’s but they are attractive, inventive and subtle,...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 04/2015
Simon Steen-Andersen (b1976) is nothing if not referential in his concern to concretise his musical concerns, as the two works...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2015
Max Reger’s Piano Quartet Op 113 launches itself with a compositional exclamation mark, a wantonly illegal chromatic sidestep that a...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015
The Royal String Quartet have made a good reputation in a fairly wide repertory, including their support of modern composers...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 04/2015
Now in his mid-seventies, Ketil Hvoslef has long been a respected presence on the contemporary music scene and a highly...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2015
Often I wonder whether the unstoppable rise of Morton Feldman would have been possible without the CD. Pieces that run...
Reviewed by Philip Clark 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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