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...
Any violinist not relying on portamento to intensify the lyricism of their performance of high-Romantic chamber music is a brave...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue:
A captivating sense of teamwork permeates every second of this engaging document, vividly captured by the Erato recording engineers at...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2014
Dieupart’s 1701 Six suittes de clavessin (French in style and origin, dedicated to an English duchess and published in Amsterdam)...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2014
Couperin waited until his last decade to publish his Italian-inspired chamber music. The two largest works – apotheoses to Corelli...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2014
And after the silence, what next? Dutch composer and flautist Antoine Beuger has spent much of his time over the...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2014
Though Harold in Italy is very much the main work, this issue is as much about Liszt as Berlioz. This...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 11/2014
Jean-Guihen Queyras isn’t the first cellist to record the Beethoven cello works with sparing use of vibrato but few of...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2014
Coming so soon after Praga’s reissue of the fabled second performance of this piece under Kyrill Kondrashin (1962), where the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2014
Anonymous 4 have announced that the 2015-16 season will be their last. This is a source of great regret to...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2014
After an uncertain start, this five-volume ‘discographical biography’ of Lassus has hit its stride. Each volume is entrusted to a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2014
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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