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...
The Divertimento in E flat for string trio is one of Mozart’s late, great masterpieces, a massive work in six...
Reviewed in issue 03/2012
Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk, a notably well-matched team, give idiomatic performances of these three sonatas (Denk also provides outstanding...
Reviewed in issue 03/2012
In this interesting experiment of ‘songs without words’ by Delius and Ireland, Julian Lloyd Webber brings an especially sensitive ‘voice’...
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‘Where Stupa introduces polytemporality in the metaphysical and chronological sense, with all their playful capacity for harmony, Gangsa addresses the...
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Bowen’s two highly contrasting viola sonatas were inspired by the pioneering virtuoso Lionel Tertis. Both were composed in 1905 and...
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Music on a small scale? Not as Beethoven conceived these Op 9 Trios. Robert Simpson found it a ‘miracle’ that...
Reviewed in issue 03/2012
A coupling of Op 127, the most approachable of Beethoven’s late quartets, with Op 131, the most strikingly radical, could...
Reviewed in issue 03/2012
Rather than opt for the sonatas first with the Rhapsodies as makeweights, or favouring a purely chronological route, James Ehnes...
Reviewed in issue 03/2012
This is an eccentric collection of strange bedfellows. With plenty of recordings of all three composers available, wouldn’t fans of...
Reviewed in issue 03/2012
This issue in the DG Originals series appeared just in time, appropriately enough, to mark Fischer-Dieskau's 70th birthday at the...
Reviewed in issue 08/1995
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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