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...
Jamie Walton’s latest anthology for Signum once again shows him to be a impressive performer in terms of technical acumen,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2013
During the early 1960s Gloria Coates discovered the glissando. No big deal there, you might think. Xenakis had already determined...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2013
In his successive revisions to this, his textually most vexatious symphony, Bruckner bends the first movement towards a symphonic allegro...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2013
Guy Braunstein is a persuasive player who is soon to step down from his current position as concertmaster of the...
Reviewed in issue 06/2013
Always full of surprises, CPE Bach sharply puts the brakes on in the first movement of his D major Concerto,...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2013
The Sixth Symphony’s celebrity – or notoriety – at winning the $10,000 First Prize in the Columbia Graphophone Company’s Schubert...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2013
Here is a fascinating galaxy of Italian music for string quartet, opening with a work from a German composer, Hugo...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 06/2013
Issued jointly on both Blu-ray Disc and Super Audio CD, this German/Swiss teacher/pupil duo’s recital is the third of an...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2013
Popular dance is the connecting thread in Augustin Hadelich’s latest recital disc (his third) for Avie, coupling Argentinian tango, Flamenco...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2013
This is a delightful disc, not just through the warmth and fun of the five works by five composers, but...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2013
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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