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...
How encouraging it is to see Arthur Benjamin’s growing representation on disc. As I hope I made clear in my...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2014
The acknowledged masterpieces among Beethoven’s string trios are the three that form Op 9. Trio Zimmermann have already recorded those...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2014
I got my first taste of the Quartetto di Cremona in a survey of Beethoven chamber music last summer. Now...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2014
Annotator Paul Griffiths imaginatively suggests that rather than calling his ‘clarinet trio’ Contrasts, Bartók might have opted for the more...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014
That Bach himself routinely arranged his own works and those of others licenses enterprising modern performers to do likewise. Tempesta...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2014
Bach’s ‘Gamba Sonatas’ on viola and accordion? Yes, but given that sometimes the surviving instrumentation of many Bach pieces can...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2014
‘Characters’ is the title of this collection of mostly concertos, implying that there is no clever musicological thread here; each...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2014
One of Weinberg’s most Socialist Realist symphonies is here interestingly coupled with the most experimental of his six concertos. Admittedly,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2014
The Tempest and Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto: an odd coupling but, hey, why not? Tchaikovsky’s emotionally charged symphonic fantasy comes...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2014
Wilhelm Stenhammar has never really had his due. Overshadowed by his Nordic contemporaries Grieg, Nielsen and Sibelius, his productivity hampered...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards 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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