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...
American-born, Berlin-based Catherine Lamb is a composer of microtonal music (or spectralist, depending on your point of view). In 2020...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 04/2022
The first strains of Enescu’s Piano Trio (1916) are evocative of entering a sumptuous, glittering ballroom and being unexpectedly thrust...
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 04/2022
I hadn’t thought that Brahms’s string sextets offered much opportunity for musical risk-taking but the Belcea Quartet and friends have...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2022
The Belgian-based Ensemble Kheops have always impressed with their fluency of tone, immaculate intonation and ensemble, and the highly sensitive...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
For her first recorded foray into Beethoven, Rachel Podger chooses three sonatas that suit her essentially collegial performance style. The...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2022
There’s something extraordinarily satisfying about embarking upon Sibelius’s entire symphonic journey in a single one-day sitting. The evolution and refining...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2022
Before specialising as a conductor, Leonard Slatkin studied composition with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco in Los Angeles, and he has remained active...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2022
You might describe this entertaining disc as trumpeting (apologies) the extraordinary talents of Romain Leleu through a medium well used...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2022
Daniel Hope was never just another violin virtuoso. His curiosity, his ability to think outside the box, to embrace passions...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2022
Viewers in the UK may have seen this Berlin Philharmonic concert on BBC Four in an unscheduled airing on Christmas...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2022
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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