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...
Myriad moods, immoderate demands and ‘unplumbed melancholy underlying even his brightest and most vivacious moments’ (WJ Turner’s description of Mozart...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2014
Having dealt comprehensively with Liszt (99 CDs for Hyperion), the indefatigable Leslie Howard has been espousing Anton Rubinstein, one of...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 07/2014
Four notes – G sharp, A, F natural and E – opening Beethoven’s A minor Quartet, Op 132, must have...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2014
Francesco Mancini (1672-1737) spent all of his working life in his native city of Naples, notably as Alessandro Scarlatti’s successor...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014
In ways more subtle in scale but no less carefully provocative than orchestral recordings by Norrington and Zinman, this recording...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2014
The Edinburgh Quartet’s finely matched sound and firm sense of rhythm lead to a splendid performance of the Haydn. It’s...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue:
The rather curious title here, ‘Nordic Cello Soul’, covers widely diverse music by three Nordic composers. The pair of opening...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 07/2014
Rune Glerup (b1981) is a young Danish composer of whom there are high hopes for the future in his native...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2014
Daishin Kashimoto makes his second appearance in Eric Le Sage’s Fauré series, this time taking centre stage. He’s a persuasive...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2014
Smetana’s G minor Trio has one of the grandest openings in the entire piano trio repertoire, its Lisztian axis much...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014
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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