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...
The word here is ‘fearless’. You may not have expected to see the words fearless and Saint-Saëns in the same...
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 05/2023
Tradition and innovation have always forged strong alliances in Steve Reich’s music, and his three string quartets illustrate this perhaps...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2023
Members of the redoubtable Quintette Moraguès recorded a good deal in the first decade of the present century. Michel Moraguès’s...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2023
The Ruisi Quartet waited 10 years before making their debut recording. When they finally got around to it, at a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2023
In the Coronation year of 1953, Trinidad-born pianist Winifred Atwell recorded Let’s Have a Party, a right royal knees-up of...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2023
The ultra-cerebral stereotype of the New Complexity often feels like a bit of a chimera. Blame all those images of...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2023
While there’s a train of thought these days that full-fat Brahms is bad for you, that tradition is alive and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2023
The Calidore Quartet prime their tonal canvas in warm shades: nothing so bland as magnolia, but more opulent than the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2023
In taking these momentous scores back to their Parisian roots Klaus Mäkelä, as expected, engages his keen ears and sense...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2023
‘We started big’, says Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s welcome note in the booklet about his first season at the helm of the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2023
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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