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 music on this disc is rarely heard – the most mainstream is by Shostakovich, but not the quartets one...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2014
Dvořák’s American is the obvious candidate for a disc of New World quartets but the Brodsky have cast their net...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2014
There may be plenty of new music being written for violin but not on a small enough scale to present...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2014
New/Old or Folk/Art mixtures have been a staple diet for contemporary ensembles ever since the 1960s. The three musicians who...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2014
The title of this debut disc from the Counterpoise ensemble comes from its opening work, John Casken’s Deadly Pleasures, a...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2014
The booklet essay for this complete survey of all six Telemann sonatas for recorder and basso continuo observes correctly that...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2014
With so many Shostakovich quartet cycles in progress, the sequence must by now have overtaken Bartók’s as the 20th century’s...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2014
For 30 years Éliane Radigue devoted all her energies to creating electronic music until, one epiphanic night in 2004, she...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2014
Thinking about the Keller Quartet’s recent pairing of György Ligeti’s quartets with Samuel Barber’s Adagio for strings, I couldn’t help...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2014
Kodály’s two string quartets tend to linger under the shadow of the mighty ‘six pack’ that his compatriot Bartók wrote...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2014
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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