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 is much to admire here from the excellent Jerusalem Quartet. In Smetana’s First Quartet there is the fine opening...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 03/2014
The Basque composer Andrés Isasi (1890-1940) started writing eight string quartets. Only four, perhaps five, were finished, four (Nos 2...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2014
Haydn naturally forms the bedrock of any quartet’s repertoire. The only problem is when it comes to making selections for...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2014
This fourth volume of the gradually evolving Fauré series from Eric Le Sage et al could have been something of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2014
These young musicians’ performances show that the centuries-old Czech tradition of superb instrumental playing is still flourishing. I particularly enjoyed...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2014
It’s always a pleasure to welcome a new voice, especially one as talented as Callum Smart. Just 17 at the...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2014
There is a strong sense of the Classical sonata developing slowly but surely into the egaliatarian duo sonata of the...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2014
The works on this disc have been shrewdly chosen. Granville Bantock wrote his Third Violin Sonata in 1940, when he...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 03/2014
Knocking Bellini’s sleepwalking girl of 1831 still seems de rigueur. The Metropolitan Opera broadcast of 2009 with Natalie Dessay and...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2014
If there is a weak spot for Britain’s excellent and varied choral ensembles it’s in Russian repertoire. Tenebrae’s superb recording...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan 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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