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...
Strange it is that Beethoven’s most lauded movement, the first of Op 27 No 2, marked Adagio sostenuto at two...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2012
The French harpsichordist Blandine Rannou is a charismatic artist, a distinctive voice in a field crowded with technically immaculate but...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 04/2012
‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’, they say, and the same might be said here. Only with difficulty does...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 04/2012
The five Swedish composers represented on this disc range in age from Sven-David Sandström (b1942) to Mirjam Tally (b1976). None...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2012
Although his output has latterly been notable for large-scale orchestral and theatrical works, chamber music has never been absent from...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue:
Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata, his final composition, is surely one of the most significant works in the emergent solo viola repertory...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 04/2012
The Trio Mondrian inhabits two very different worlds on this excellent disc. The piano trios by Ravel and Shostakovich, cast...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2012
Australian music has really come into its own over the past two decades, with Wendy Hiscocks (50 next year) playing...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 04/2012
Five of these 10 tracks are for solo piano, two for solo violin and the other three for instrumental ensembles....
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue:
Received ideas about Fauré’s two cello sonatas would have us regard them as characteristic of his old age when his...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 04/2012
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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