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...
From Naples comes a less than sharp revival of Bizet’s best nearly-nearly opera. The Pearl Fishers is always worth hearing...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2015
Two favourites (of mine, at any rate) frame this three-CD set of wind-ensemble pieces from Les Vents Français. The fact...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2015
What initially looks like a marginally relevant disc turns out to be a deceptively smart, feel-good collection that also solves...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2015
This collection of Romantic pieces is remarkable for the outstanding quality of the playing. Tabea Zimmermann and Thomas Hoppe give...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2015
Given the richness and uniqueness of much of the chamber music motivated by the Cobbett Competition (instigated in 1905), it...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 03/2015
There was a period in my life when I would regularly overdose on late-period Luigi Nono. The all-encompassing scope of...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2015
When new music can’t be understood without the album notes, either the idiom is extremely foreign or the composer’s intentions...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2015
The Schumann Quartet – not named after Robert but after the three brothers who are its violinists and cellist –...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2015
If there is a Cinderella among Hindemith’s three dozen(ish) sonatas, it’s not that for double bass, tuba, or even the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2015
Breathy notes on shakuhachi answered by an eerily floating mezzo-soprano vocalise, punctuated by splashes of sounds on temple gongs and...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2015
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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