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...
Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s latest programme, a typically adventurous affair, has been put together with considerable care. To open with Morton Feldman’s...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2022
Lifelong New Yorker Bruce Wolosoff (b1955) is a formidable pianist and a composer who delights in blurring genre boundaries. I’ve...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2022
The first volume in the Arcadia Quartet’s cycle of Weinberg’s string quartets (3/21) was a solid basis from which to...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2022
I was mightily impressed with Elena Ruehr’s first six quartets (5/18), choosing that Avie set as my Critics’ Choice for...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022
With a discography including two volumes of Haydn (Naxos), the piano trios of Saint-Saëns (Guild, 11/14) and newer works by...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2022
Piano-accompanied performances of all of Mozart’s violin sonatas are surprisingly few and far between. Most duos – perhaps wisely –...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2022
An intriguing detail in the booklet note tells us that Thomas Lupo (1571-1627) was paid 40 marks in 1621 to...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2022
He may remain best known through his works for brass band but Edward Gregson (b1945) has amassed a substantial and...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2022
Some themes seem more alluring on paper than in reality, and the linking of three quite disparate sound worlds and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2022
‘One of my favourite things about performing Beethoven’s complete cycle of sonatas for cello and piano is that in five...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2022
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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