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...
This is the first appearance in these pages of the French pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian (b1995, Paris) but I suspect he...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022
This is the second volume of Nikolai Lugansky’s Beethoven to have come my way and the ruggedness that coloured his...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2022
While not wishing to brand this comely trio of performances a ‘throwback’, it does bring in its train a key...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022
It hardly seems three decades since Tim Williams founded the Manchester-based Psappha, its track record in terms of commissioning or...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2022
Those with eyes and ears fixed on the BBC Young Musician competition will know that in 2020 the strings final...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022
Ensemble Fractales are a specialist new music chamber group comprising flautist Renata Kambarova, clarinettist Benjamin Maneyrol, violinist (and occasional viola...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022
The viola has been the source of inspiration behind a good deal of chamber music written by 20th-century British composers...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2022
The relationship between Shostakovich and Weinberg has often been discussed over recent years, this collection throwing the reciprocal nature of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2022
Schubert’s three mature works for violin and piano make an ideal disc-length programme, the Duo Sonata (1817) expanding on the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2022
This enterprising programme of music by Marcus Paus (b1979) is adroitly presented. Disc 1 comprises a set of (to use...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022
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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