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...
Over the years a significant number of rock and pop musicians have acknowledged their debt to Steve Reich, as seen...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2014
George Onslow’s natural melodic gift is enhanced here by the engagingly spontaneous playing of the Trio Portici and especially the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2014
Gramophone’s conferment of Young Artists of the Year on the Nightingale Quartet is no less than these four intrepid artists...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2014
Gabriel Pierné’s star seems to be in the ascendant at the moment. A few months back there was a fine...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2014
Tasmin Little and Martin Roscoe give a passionate, full-blooded performance of the Lekeu Sonata, taking on board the 22 year-old...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 12/2014
It’s a shame that Saint-Saëns couldn’t have been as nice about Franck’s Violin Sonata as he was about Fauré’s (‘with...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2014
This is the first music by Robert Erickson (1917 97) that I have encountered (although New World has issued several...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2014
With each recording of York Bowen’s chamber music, it becomes clear just how accomplished a composer he was. The two...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2014
Initial brownie points on the issue of repeats, both in the first movement (fairly crucial in my view) and the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2014
Berlioz in his Treatise on Instrumentation and Orchestration describes the clarinet as having ‘a proud quality tempered by noble tenderness,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2014
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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