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...
Two other worthy versions of Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No 1 (1979) – by The Group for Contemporary Music (originally...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2014
This pair of one-off live performances relives and condenses the battle over music in the second half of the 19th...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2014
An interesting coupling, Brahms and Dohnányi being cut from similar bales of cloth, the younger composer’s First Quartet composed in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014
A large proportion of Adolphe Blanc’s output was chamber music, and he was much practised in it, with a strength...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW2014
Jenny Lin has always shown a knack for thematic programme-building, and this collection of pieces inspired by the night ranges...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2014
Armenian-born but Italian-based pianist Diana Gabrielyan presents an intriguing recital of works by four 20th-century composers ‘whose music has almost...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2014
For his second recording devoted to the music of Robert de Visée, guitarist and lutenist to Louis XIV and colleague...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW2014
Previous releases of piano music from Peter Seabourne (9/13) gave notice of a composer wholly at ease in the solo...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2014
It takes a real virtuoso to make the gnarly, block-like piano-writing of Tchaikovsky’s underrated Grande Sonate sound pianistically idiomatic and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2014
Kirill Gerstein writes a thoughtful booklet-note musing on the fact that music’s very elusiveness means that we can create our...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2014
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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