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...
I absent-mindedly loaded this disc into my CD player and promptly forgot about it. The next day I powered up...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2022
Saudade means a melancholy longing, and the São Paulo-born guitarist Plínio Fernandes’s debut recording is suffused with it. The repertoire...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2022
The tensed, animated world of Beethoven’s Fourth Quartet (1798-1800), perhaps the darkest of the six works in his Op 18,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2022
Bojan Čičić and The Illyria Consort bring us two discs that cover the 12 sonatas that make up Johann Jakob...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2022
It’s always exciting to hear the fruits of a lesser-known musical mind, and Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956) certainly doesn’t disappoint here....
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 10/2022
It’s always nice to be reminded that Paganini was more than just razzle-dazzle virtuoso caprices and violin concertos, but this...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2022
Another month, another Fanny-and-Felix pairing. Not that I’m complaining when the results are as exhilarating as this. Over the past...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2022
Nikolai Korndorf (1947-2001) is one of those names that has haunted the corridors of contemporary music history, so to speak,...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2022
The Takács Quartet come to the end, as it were, of their slow-burn survey of Haydn’s late quartets, following recordings...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2022
How could it have been that, before this treat of a recording landed on my desk, I didn’t know that...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2022
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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