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...
These young players based in New York boast a formidable range of accomplishments: perfect chording, beautifully matched tone, precise technical...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2015
The 1990s fashion for dispensing as many recordings as possible of ‘newly discovered’ Baroque music did not always guarantee the...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2015
Arturo Fuentes is a Mexican composer born in 1975 currently living in Austria, whose music has attracted sufficient attention to...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2015
Two composers in particular spring out as influences on these two very different quintets: Schumann in Op 1, most specifically...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2015
It might have seemed that there could not be any more early works by Britten waiting to be discovered but...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2015
A feature of this issue is the inclusion of both versions of the Op 8 Trio – the original of...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2015
These impressive performances come into direct competition with the set released last year by Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang. Recorded...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2015
It isn’t difficult to feel confident as the Cypress Quartet launch into the first movement of Op 59 No 1....
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2015
Ten years on from his first recording for Delphian of the (then) newly restored Norman and Beard in the Usher...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2015
On the surface, prize-winning Icelandic guitarist Kristinn Árnason’s latest recording contains few surprises: a classic recital comprising chronologically ordered pieces...
Reviewed by William Yeoman 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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