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...
The second volume of John Axelrod’s ‘Brahms Beloved’ series again has Brahms’s orchestral monuments alongside Clara Schumann’s genteel songs that...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2014
This recording was inspired by the Rose Consort’s recent acquisition of a ‘chest’ of six viols (treble, two tenor, two...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2014
It would be hard to imagine a more enticing introduction to the delights of 17th-century Italian violin music. The composers...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2014
During 1906 Fauré composed vocalises for sight-singing tests at the Paris Conservatoire, where singing of art-song had just been made...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2014
Julian Steckel and Paul Rivinius’s 2011 release of cello-piano works by Fauré, Poulenc, Debussy and Boulanger was a vividly programmed...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2014
Most of this music is well represented on CD but the rarity is Bernstein’s early Piano Trio. He wrote it...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/2014
All five works here are overshadowed by war. Hindemith’s Sonata, although it opens confidently, includes a second movement which has...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2014
There seems little to link Schubert’s quartet with Janáček’s except responses to death. In the Schubert, the players shadow the...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2014
Antony Holborne’s Pavans, Galliards, Almains and Other Short Aeirs both Grave, and Light was published in 1599. Described as being...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2014
Like many rock musicians who managed to piggyback their radical ideals off a 1970s music industry still prepared to sign...
Reviewed by Philip Clark 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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