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...
Vivaldi’s output of sonatas for two violins and bass consists of the 12 trio sonatas of his Op 1, and...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2014
These works, from either end of their composers’ output, make for an unlikely yet effective pairing. Szymanowski’s Violin Sonata (1909)...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2014
At the heart of this disc are the 12 canons for violin and guitar whimsically titled Schrödinger’s Cat; whimsically, because...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2014
Meredith Monk’s music for both solo piano and piano duo is rooted in her unique singing style, which encompasses a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2014
This is the final volume in the Mandelring Quartet’s complete survey of Mendelssohn’s chamber music for strings, and as its...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014
In the May 2014 issue of Gramophone, I recommended you check out Bernhard Lang’s Monadologie XII – the vocabulary of...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2014
Since the pioneering recording of Howells’s three violin sonatas, Opp 18, 26 and 38, by Paul Barritt and Catherine Edwards...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2014
Gabriel Dupont, who lived to the age of only 36 before succumbing to tuberculosis in 1914, is one of those...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2014
Non-committed beginnings, and a whiff of detachment pervades the first movement of the E minor Cello Sonata. Ian Brown keeps...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2014
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s so-called Mystery Sonatas are the best-known works of a composer superficially remembered for the extreme virtuosity...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014
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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