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...
This album is rather jewel-like: small but perfectly formed. Daniel Lozakovich’s playing is shimmering and stylish, offering a set of...
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 07/2023
Unlike most young violinists who devote their debut CDs to flashy repertoire, Maria Ioudenitch puts forth the proposition that the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2023
1723. Are you racking your brains as to what exactly happened 300 years ago that was worthy of an album-shaped...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2023
Jörg Widmann has performed Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet with the Hagen Quartet ‘countless times’, according to the booklet. In 2009 the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2023
Hans Keller used to talk about ‘insiders’ of the string quartet: string-playing composers with an instinctive understanding of quartet textures....
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2023
Norwegian cellist Sandra Lied Haga opts for a French programme for her recital with Katya Apekisheva, juxtaposing the familiar Franck/Delsart...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2023
César Franck’s Piano Quintet has notoriously divided opinion since it was first heard in January 1880, when Saint-Saëns, sight-reading his...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2023
Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon highlight the Kreutzer Sonata’s fantasia-like, improvisatory qualities. Thus, while Isabelle Faust plays the opening four-bar...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2023
The early 19th century couldn’t get enough of Beethoven’s Septet, to the composer’s mounting irritation (‘too much sentimentality and too...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2023
The sounds of gamelan instruments were first heard in the US at the Chicago Exposition in 1893, and it’s close...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2023
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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