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...
In a market not short of good accounts of Shostakovich’s string quartets, the idea of placing them alongside other representative...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2012
It is unusual to see a pairing of what are the two most important string quartets of Schubert, and even...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2012
Pedants who know that Mendelssohn’s Second Quartet was written before his First will love the presentation of this disc as...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2012
This well-filled disc contains something like half of Humperdinck’s music for string quartet and piano quintet, most of which he...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2012
Thanks to Chandos, four discs of Halvorsen’s orchestral music have recently appeared, with one to follow. Johan Halvorsen, born in...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2012
Although the essence of Finzi’s instrumental sound lies in the lush textures of the string orchestra – as symbolised by...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2012
It was not until 1965 that Hilda Jerea uncovered the not-quite-complete manuscript of Enescu’s A minor Piano Trio, composed in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2012
Hot on the heels of the Wanderer’s complete set of trios comes the first volume from the Gould Trio, captured...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2012
The latest addition to Ton Koopman’s monumental Buxtehude recording project is the second of two collections of trio sonatas, published...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 08/2012
It would be hard to imagine a finer version of the sadly neglected Grieg Quartet, the only one he completed....
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2012
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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