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...
Seventeenth-century Venice witnessed spectacular musical developments, from the polychoral liturgical motets of Gabrieli to the establishment of Europe’s first competing...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2014
These recordings are all of live performances given during Martha Argerich’s Lugano Festival between 2010 and 2013. The Pianos Trio...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 11/2014
The German cellist Anja Lechner, best known to Gramophone readers as a founder member of the Rosamunde Quartet, works frequently...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2014
Spanish Baroque music played on the viola? Why not – especially when the viola is played by someone of the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2014
Geniality and impeccable craftsmanship go hand in hand when it comes to Saint-Saëns’s piano trios. As Basil Smallman remarked in...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2014
The Lendvai Trio’s previous disc of Röntgen string trios (2/14), featuring Nos 1 4, was one of the great surprises...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2014
You will not need reminding by now that the Strauss and Verdi quartets, a familiar record-company coupling, are the only...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2014
For a long time Mendelssohn’s First Piano Trio has been much more popular than its successor but today it seems...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 11/2014
The German-born Friedrich Kuhlau settled in Copenhagen in his early twenties and enjoyed a modest amount of success there. He...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2014
Played at its best, the Franck Violin Sonata presents itself as an almost through-composed piece, the wildly varying musical ideas...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2014
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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