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...
This is a most attractive collection of performances from this excellent chamber group. It opens with Poulenc’s many-faceted Sextet for...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2015
By the end of this programme of short works – most of which have little more than five-minute spans of...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2015
It’s good to have a reading of Schubert’s Octet which explores it via the pungency of period instruments. The very...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015
Increasingly well represented on disc, Boston-based Elena Ruehr (b1963) has maintained a steady chamber output – of which this selection...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2015
The prize-winning Russian cellist Boris Andrianov here offers a programme of Russian music in transcriptions for cello and piano. Shostakovich’s...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2015
Most of the works on this disc are relatively recent but it begins with the highly enjoyable Three Miniatures for...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2015
Mozart informed his father that he had composed the Serenade K375 ‘rather carefully’ to impress Herr von Strack, a Viennese...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2015
Roberto Prosseda has already been rattling his way through Mendelssohn’s piano music for Italian Decca, and here he is joined...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2015
David Matthews’s purposeful, imaginative and inventive music has rightly gained its own following, which the Kreutzer Quartet’s excellent cycle of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2015
It would be hard and probably undesirable to pin any sort of label on the music of Laurent Lefrançois, the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2015
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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