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 Kuss Quartet’s new record, ‘Thème russe’, consists mostly of a number of appetising morsels, not so much a meal...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 07/2012
Seekers after the unusual will almost certainly light on the Quintet by Jean Émile Paul Cras (1879-1932), a composer who...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2012
Camillo Sivori (1815-94) was celebrated as Paganini’s only pupil; in fact, the period of tuition was quite short and Sivori...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2012
High hopes always accompany the appearance of new recordings from these artists: high hopes that, on this occasion, are not...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2012
There’s a real sense of discovery about the playing of Trio Jean Paul – no mean feat given that this...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2012
Zemlinsky’s Trio for clarinet, cello and piano and Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time are worlds apart in musical...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2012
In Das Konzert (2001-02), Mauricio Kagel revisited the idea of the Baroque concerto grosso with a work for flute and...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2012
It’s an entrancing work in orchestral and choral guise. But whether all the movements in The Seven Last Words lend...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2012
Sir Hamilton Harty is best remembered nowadays as chief conductor of the Hallé in the inter-war years, a vintage period...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2012
It was an inspired idea in 2010 for Ursula Oppens and Jerome Lowenthal to pair these two major 20th-century French...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2012
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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