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...
Brahms, Dvořák, Fauré, Franck, Schubert, Schumann…and perhaps Taneyev. The list of indisputably great Romantic piano quintets may be a shortish...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2014
Here’s further proof that John Pickard (b1962) is one of the most edifying and accomplished composers around. Toccata Classics gives...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2014
When the Yggsdrasil Quartet’s pioneering disc of Jón Leifs’s three string quartets was released by BIS in 1995, I gave...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014
Bernhard Lang’s title might lead you to think classic-period modernism but Monadologie XII turns out to be a composer’s re...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2014
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), one of the most beloved musicians of the last century, is sui generis. In an 80th-birthday tribute...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2014
Most viola players separate Hindemith’s sonatas with piano on disc from the unaccompanied works. Even Kim Kashkashian, whose ECM twofer...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014
It’s a brave move by the Neave Trio to couple two of the most searing trios in the repertoire. Searing...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2014
Did you know that Josef Suk composed a habanera? Well, neither did I and, in all probability, neither did he....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue:
Few composers were more fiercely self-critical than Brahms. His habit of destroying works he viewed as unworthy remained with him...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014
Some of the contrasts in character between the many movements of these six sonatas that are so easily achieved on...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2014
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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