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...
Ensemble F2’s project, prepared last year for Finchcocks Musical Museum in Kent, explores the chamber music of Franz Danzi (1763-1826)....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue:
This double set completes the Avison Ensemble’s survey of Corelli’s published opuses. Both of these Roman publications contain 12 trio...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2014
The Italy of the 1920s was not a good place to be. Luckily, though, jazz was starting to enjoy some...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2014
'Personal music demands personal music tools,’ writes the American composer Chris Campbell as he outlines how his new album pulls...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2014
Contradictions rule. Brahms’s biographer Florence May (1905) says of the Clarinet Quintet: ‘The tone of gentle loving regret that prevails...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2014
Repeated listening to Bach’s Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord deepens one’s sense of their formal variety within a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2014
Not knowing anything about this repertoire or the personality behind it, one’s initial reaction is a unique convergence of musical...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2014
Edward Gardner presides over blisteringly eloquent and splendidly unbuttoned accounts of both these Walton masterworks, the First Symphony’s vehement opening...
Reviewed in issue 07/2014
Borrowing, adapting, transcribing: Bach was a master at this game. So why would he, who borrowed from others and from...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2014
Stravinsky’s famous memorial to Debussy may be the title-track here but the main interest in this vividly played programme lies...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014
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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