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...
The 20-year-old French cellist Edgar Moreau, silver medallist at the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, launches his recording career with...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
David Popper (1843-1913) was a Bohemian cellist whose work as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher was lauded all over...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2014
Mendelssohn’s music for cello and piano runs the full gamut, from simple lyrical pieces to large-scale Beethovenian sonata structures. This...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2012
Anyone familiar with the repertory played by string quartets at weddings will have heard the clever and idiomatic popular song...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2012
The Wayward Sisters are an edgy new American ensemble specialising in Baroque music. Sisters in spirit maybe – their trusty...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2014
First off, it’s worth saluting this young trio for making its CD debut with music as non-commercial as this. The...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2014
Vijay Iyer is the newly installed Franklin D and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard. His background is...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014
As recently as the March issue I was pondering the thought processes involved in choosing a 60-plus-minute recital of Haydn’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2014
The booklet-note by no means downplays the promise of this disc. ‘One will discover with stupefaction an authentic masterpiece,’ it...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
If you consider Morton Feldman to be a challenging listen then take it from me, you don’t know the half...
Reviewed by Philip Clark 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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