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...
This disc of chamber and piano works by Augusta Read Thomas follows on from that of her orchestral music (4/14)...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2014
Shostakovich’s wartime Second Trio, such a powerful work, gets a splendid performance. From the opening, with its contrapuntal lines of...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2014
Best known as arranger and multi-instrumentalist in the rock band Arcade Fire, Richard Reed Parry has also been building a...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2014
Here’s another absorbing volume of British masterworks for cello and piano, all three of which date from the 1940s and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2014
The six quartets of Mendelssohn, along with the assorted other pieces for string quartet, form a firm point of reference...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2014
Though certainly known among cellists, the three Martinů cello sonatas don’t turn up on chamber music programmes with the frequency...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014
For two discs of music by Fernando Lopes Graça (1906 93) to arrive for review simultaneously is a demonstration of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014
Kosmos for two pianos is Peter Eötvös’s youthful response to Bartók’s Mikrokosmos, these short, concentrated explorations of single technical features...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2014
The Gringolts Quartet is a remarkable group. These highly accomplished players achieve a near-perfect blend of sound, effortless precision and...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2014
After decades of favouring winds and percussion in his ensemble pieces, Birtwistle turned his attention in the course of the...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 08/2014
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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