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...
Maybe, just maybe, Anna Netrebko’s advocacy of Tchaikovsky’s last opera – namely this recording (made live in Essen) and the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2015
It’s rare to experience the level of artistic rapport heard on this recording from the Danish recorder player Michala Petri...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 01/2015
Two discs here, the first a Blu ray with visuals, the second a hybrid SACD. In terms of sound, the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2015
From the last hurrah of Boccherini’s four simultaneous nocturnal parties disappearing round the street corner yet hanging in the night...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2015
Monteverdi’s madrigals have been served so well and so richly that ensembles must be pretty sure of their ground before...
Reviewed in issue 01/2015
Having released on three separate discs Monteverdi’s late (1641) published collection of sacred music, Selva morale e spirituale (12/10, 8/12,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2014
Sheherazade as chamber music? Reduced to four members? Somewhere up there, Leopold Stokowski, the man who made this music a...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015
Plangent sounds and punchy rhythms permeate the five compositions for violin and piano played very impressively on this recording by...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2015
Vivaldi’s Op 5 consists of six sonatas: four for solo violin, followed by two trio sonatas, the latter a well-established...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 01/2015
The four string quartets by Robert Still (1910 71) chart a fascinating stylistic journey. Premiered in 1948 (and not heard...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015
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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