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 Aronowitz Ensemble consists of seven talented young musicians in the ‘useful’ combination of piano and string sextet. They have...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 09/2012
It is unassailable that, despite his lack of prolificness, Chausson’s music is always intelligent and engaging as well as being...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2012
To recreate Fanny Davies’s description, ‘Brahms’s manner of interpretation was free, very elastic and expansive; his phrasing was notable in...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2012
It’s always fun to play spot-the-link with recital discs, and with this cornucopia from Danish husband-and-wife ensemble Christina Åstrand and...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2012
First impressions of The Protecting Veil are of a consonant, major-key sweetness that could portend a pastoral after the style...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/1992
Gunnar Berg (1909-89) was a proponent of total serialism, apparently the first in Denmark, who unsurprisingly attended Messiaen’s composition classes...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2012
While the composer himself was reluctant to break faith with the technically less proficient Beethoven Quartet, concert-goers and record buyers...
Reviewed in issue 06/2012
This is a truly riveting recital of Wagner from Varady (magnificent singing) and Fischer- Dieskau. Varady's reading of the Wesendonk...
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Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 01/2012
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue:
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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