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...
Spannungen, the world’s only festival in a hydroelectric power station, continues to go from strength to strength under the aegis...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2013
The beautifully crafted music of Buxton Orr (1924-97) has been shockingly neglected. Here is a composer, born in Scotland, who...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2013
This disc brings together two musicians absolutely at the top of their game and with long experience of working together,...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2013
The Mandelring Quartet’s first release in their complete cycle of Mendelssohn’s chamber music for strings included the Opp 12 and...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2013
It is good to welcome a second disc of the Carolingian composer William Lawes (1602-45) so soon after the excellent...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2013
Apollo et Hyazinthus (1948-49) marks an early stage in Hans Werner Henze’s lifelong quest for a viable way of countering...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2013
If Swedish music often seems to present a case of missed opportunities, there is no lack of worthy composers with...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 02/2013
No information is provided about composer Hywel Davies anywhere on this release containing 17 of his short pieces. That’s just...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2013
My advice is to tackle Op 34 first, undoubtedly one of Dvořák’s early masterpieces, and although the Vogler Quartet opt...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2013
Couperin’s four inventive trio sonatas and suites entitled Les nations (published Paris, 1726) were composed over a period of about...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2013
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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