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...
My second Ferdinand this month (see page 52), and another figure best known for his association with others. The most...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2022
With some three dozen versions currently available, Quatuor pour la fin du temps is the most recorded of Messiaen’s larger...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2022
The Nightingale Quartet’s first volume (3/21) opened with Holmboe’s first published quartet, Op 46, and this second concludes with his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022
Ferdinand Hiller (1811 85) is one of those composers known more as a name in the biographies of others than...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2022
‘Pater Seraphicus’ was the nickname bestowed on César Franck by his devoted pupils, the so-called bande à Franck. Genteel sensibilities...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2022
In programming terms alone, your interest may be piqued by this distinctly off-piste combination of violin sonatas from Portuguese violinist...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2022
The thought of pairing Brahms and Finzi hadn’t occurred to me before but it makes perfect sense, particularly with the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2022
Brahms was careful not to leave much if any evidence of his compositional struggles, thus there’s no score of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2022
Anyone still thinking of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern as soulless serialists will be surprised by the feverish romanticism that burns...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2022
I have a friend who cannot abide ‘late’ Beethoven and I’d hazard a guess that the five-movement Quartet in A...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2022
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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