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...
These volumes continue to affirm Miklós Spányi’s exemplary musicianship and clavichord prowess, as well as to draw further attention to...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2013
On two Somm CDs the excellent cellist Alexander Baillie, with his pianist, John Thwaites, has collected six enjoyable British cello...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2013
As relatively recently as 1983 in these pages, Robert Layton felt it necessary to preface his review of a recording...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013
Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and String Quartet No 1 are both single-movement symphonic structures, rich in polyphonic detail and ending with...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2013
You have to wonder whether Ashkenazy would ever have made this disc were it not for the fact that it...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2013
Which would you prefer? A great, revelatory performance on an acoustic disc or a good performance in digital sound? Fondamenta...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2013
If you want a recording of Mozart’s Quintet on a conventional clarinet, Jörg Widmann and the Arcanto Quartet are up...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2013
John Harle quotes Picasso in suggesting that ‘a painting should have an immediate, visceral effect’, and tells us that his...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2013
Having enjoyed a disc of Goehr’s orchestral works a few months back (Naxos, 3/13), I’ve found it instructive to turn...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2013
Enescu’s Second Violin Sonata (1899) occupies a special place in his output, being the work in which he found his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2013
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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