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...
If a quartet has any character at all it needs to be easily identifiable blind, and the Quatuor Ysaÿe have...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2013
It is understandable that Tabea Zimmermann should be completely at home recording these works on the viola, for each one...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 04/2013
There is a surprisingly coherent thread running through what at first looks like slightly random programming here. Its unifying idea...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2013
My spontaneous reaction after hearing Matthew Rose’s trudge across Schubert’s snowbound landscape was ‘He’ll survive’. From the flickering will-o’-the-wisp of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2013
Hard to believe it’s as long ago as spring 2000 that Leif Ove Andsnes released his benchmark disc of these...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2013
Sarah-Jane Bradley’s viola has a singing quality beautifully suited to this essentially ruminative, lyrical repertoire and Christian Wilson’s role as...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2012
Formed several years ago in Cleveland, based in Brooklyn and comprising Greg Pattillo on flute, Eric Stephenson on cello and...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2012
This album of orchestrated Frank Zappa arrives, as such albums tend to, with a fawning booklet-note by a classical composer...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2012
It is becoming slightly old hat to mention that the Arcanto Quartet is a musically magical combination of individually renowned...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012
Continuing their penchant for releasing discs of obscure French composers, the Trio Hochelaga have moved on from their relatively speaking...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012
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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