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...
Particularly in the sparely scored works of his so-called neo-classical period, Stravinsky’s music requires very exact balance, something scrupulously caught...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 04/2013
There’s something about Schumann’s piano trios. The music really gets under your skin, more so than many of his works:...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2013
release This new coupling by Bruno Monteiro and João Paulo Santos of Strauss’s Violin Sonata with the D minor work...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 04/2013
This disc abounds in the kind of full-on playing and lively engagement with the music that we’ve come to expect...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2013
Given the paucity of modern repertoire for piano trio, it is no surprise that Martinů’s four works for this combination...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2013
After issuing a series of fine recordings of French music in the 1980s and early ’90s, Trio Sonnerie make a...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2013
Playing Dvořák well seems to be par for the course these days, whereas playing him beautifully isn’t. The young Cypress...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2013
The memory of hearing Jordi Savall’s 1975 recording of Couperin’s two unequalled Suites for bass viols has never left me,...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2013
Considering how important the Corelli Op 5 duo sonatas are in the history of violin-playing, performances and recordings of these...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2013
One thing’s for sure, the last person to take any interest in recordings of music by John Cage was John...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 04/2013
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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