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...
It is 50 years since Dohnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Song for piano and orchestra was heard frequently in concert...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2012
Here are the first fruits of the Brodsky Quartet’s 40th-anniversary alliance with Chandos: an original and revealing Debussy coupling and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2012
Independent labels are invaluable for promoting lesser known composers, as Omnibus Classics does here for Julian Dawes. Dawes, in his...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 06/2012
It is a neat idea to bring together Couperin’s complementary celebrations of the competing national styles of the mid-Baroque, two...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2012
The Op 120 Sonatas, in their viola-and-piano guise (Brahms originally wrote them for clarinet, later adapting the part to suit...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2012
Gunnar Berg (1909-89) was a proponent of total serialism, apparently the first in Denmark, who unsurprisingly attended Messiaen’s composition classes...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2012
While the composer himself was reluctant to break faith with the technically less proficient Beethoven Quartet, concert-goers and record buyers...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2012
Sasha Grynyuk’s recording debut is as idiosyncratic as it is dazzling. The reverse of the well-tried and familiar, it opts...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2012
For many, César Franck’s reputation as a composer of organ music rests firmly on just a dozen pieces, the ‘Big...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2012
The inclusion of a DVD with Pieter Wispelwey’s third recording of the Bach Suites is an insightful bonus. The Dutch...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2012
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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