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...
As the longtime general editor of Charles Ives’s piano works for the Ives Society’s critical edition, it stands to reason...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024
As in his previous Rubicon release (4/19), Karim Said again explores connections between teachers and disciples, with Mozart and Beethoven...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024
Decades of gestation and seasoning inform Peter Donohoe’s excellently engineered readings of Albéniz’s Iberia Books 1 and 2 and the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024
Had Charles Darwin used musical instruments to back up his theory of evolution, he may well have looked to the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2024
The concept behind this intriguing, delightfully played programme is the development of the British wind quintet decade by decade from...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024
After a wide-ranging exploration, over a number of consistently fascinating releases, of the baroque mandolin in Italy (with a brief...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2024
The Miró Quartet’s new album, ‘Home’, offers a discourse on the themes thrown up by the title: a nation’s people...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2024
The French have long been in an intimate relationship with the flute. Think of that siren call languorously opening Debussy’s...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2024
In this fourth instalment of Weinberg string quartets, the Arcadia Quartet tellingly juxtapose one of his greatest works with two...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2024
His output may be dominated by large-scale works for piano but Kaikhosru Sorabji wrote vocal and chamber pieces of relative...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2024
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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