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...
NMC’s Debut Discs series continues with a timely profile of Dai Fujikura – Osaka-born and London-based, whose music is an...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 12/2012
As a composer-violinist Enescu didn’t provide a large part of his own concert repertoire, as his 19th-century predecessors had done....
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2012
While not quite matching the dynamism and idiomatic accents of the Pavel Haas Quartet, the Cecilia String Quartet offer a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2012
Raphael Wallfisch has recorded Delius’s Cello Sonata before on Chandos and, if you prefer major couplings such as Bax, Bridge,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2012
Two young British artists, both winners of international prizes, the cellist Philip Higham and the pianist Simon Lane, form an...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2012
One of the many notable things about the Tokyo Quartet is that they play the ‘Paganini’ quartet of instruments by...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2012
It is great to have a new recording from the Eton Choirbook, that astonishing collection of English church music from...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW/2012
Pia Heise has an attractive voice and sings with appealing candour. Roger Vignoles is an attentive, vastly experienced accompanist. Yet...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW/2012
Much is made of Virpi Räisänen’s dual career path. Though an accomplished violinist, she is now making her name as...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW/2012
The title may be ‘Haec dies: Byrd and the Tudor Revival’: the Haec dies on this excellent disc is not...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW/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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