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...
There’s no sense of a flagging of energy or commitment as Miklós Spányi reaches the 23rd and 24th volumes of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2012
‘Saltarello’ is every bit as inventive and beautiful as its predecessor, ‘D’amore’ (9/08), rendering time and geographical space irrelevant in...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2012
If the recorder is the favourite instrument of few, then few instruments can convey perky and melancholy quite as vividly....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2012
Many unfamiliar with Huw Watkins (36 this year) as composer are likely to have encountered him as pianist, in which...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 09/2012
The 12 trio sonatas that make up Vivaldi’s Op 1 are his earliest known compositions. By the time that they...
Reviewed in issue 09/2012
Schumann’s works for solo instrument(s) with piano are often subsumed within multi-composer recitals so it’s more than worthwhile to have...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2012
Go straight to D810, Death and the Maiden. The two opening fortissimo motifs are like clarion calls. The Artemis Quartet...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2012
William Lawes was the leading composer at the court of Charles I for most of the Civil War, before he...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 09/2012
The distinguished discography of Handel’s violin sonatas includes fine versions by John Holloway (CRD, 10/92), Andrew Manze (Harmonia Mundi, 11/01),...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2012
The chamber music of Jean Françaix is unaccountably neglected and it is opportune that MDG have decided to reissue the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 09/2012
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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