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...
As with all the Bach Players’ recordings to date (this is their sixth), this one has its origins in a...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2013
Franco Donatoni, Luigi Nono, Aldo Clementi, Niccolò Castiglioni – it’s difficult to think of a mid-20th-century Italian composer whose music...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2013
This recording includes most of Thea Musgrave’s chamber works with oboe, including a recent spate of pieces inspired by the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2013
John Joubert, now in his mid-eighties, came to grim post-war London from South Africa on a Performing Right Society scholarship...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 06/2013
Augustin Dumay has recorded the Franck Sonata before, with Maria João Pires; his collaboration with Louis Lortie proves to be...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2013
Ivor Gurney’s story is among the saddest. Trained as a Gloucester Cathedral chorister, he became a pupil of Stanford at...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2013
With each new disc the Quatuor Modigliani seem to burgeon. If their Arriaga/Mozart/Schubert programme last year was very fine, this...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2013
Brahms wrote his First Violin Sonata in 1878-79, immediately after the Violin Concerto. It was conceived as a sonatina and...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 06/2013
Few command Brahms’s string quartets the way the Jerusalem do here in Op 51 No 2. Even the most reputable...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2013
Bach’s six flute sonatas (three with obbligato keyboard, the rest with continuo) come down to us with varied pedigrees, lucidly...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie 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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