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...
When reviewing Kilian Herold and the Armida Quartet’s recording of Johanna Senfter’s fine Clarinet Quintet, Richard Whitehouse hoped ‘that more...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024
Adaptations of Schubert range from faithful transcriptions to more intricate amplifications and radical realisations such as Berio’s Rendering. Since the...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 08/2024
International music competitions gifting a recording as part of their first-prize package may be increasingly common but few competition-label partnerships...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2024
According to cellist Dóra Kokas, ‘Hypnosis’ (this programme’s title) refers to the hypnotherapy Rachmaninov underwent in order to overcome a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2024
David Pohle’s name is probably not familiar to many. Though his music appears on a handful of recorded anthologies of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2024
Of the many recordings now available of Elgar’s Violin Sonata (which I surveyed in a Gramophone Collection in January 2016),...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2024
The legacy of 14 quartets by Conrado del Campo (1878-1953) has so far not won the attention of Naxos’s compendious...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2024
Recordings of Buxtehude’s trio sonatas enjoy a healthy presence in the catalogue these days, no doubt because their unusual scoring...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2024
‘Will Mullova keep us waiting another ten or more years for her next sonata instalment’, I asked when the second...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2024
Fifty years ago, the LSO and Ole Schmidt gave us the first complete recording of Nielsen’s symphonies, braving power cuts...
Reviewed 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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