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...
With time, a musical work takes on the character of a character. It’s played by players who, often aided by...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2022
Certain performers seem to find a Being John Malkovich-like secret portal to the brain of every composer they play. Marc-André...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2022
As a ‘Venetian mirror’, I suppose it is inevitable that we hear doubles on this album. Le Consort present the...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2022
Violinist Elena Urioste is from the US, her pianist husband Tom Poster from the UK, and this recital teases out...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2022
Having earlier recorded the violin sonatas (Challenge Classics, 9/13), Violin Concerto (7/14), violin Concertino (9/15) and solo violin sonatas (9/16),...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022
Following on from the Fitzwilliam’s recording of Schubert’s Rosamunde and Death and the Maiden Quartets on Divine Art comes this...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2022
Mozart’s piano concertos were habitually played in quartet or quintet reductions during the 18th century. The composer explicitly authorised such...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2022
Finally I’ve found my CD equivalent to Proust’s memory-laden madeleine. Not only are the performers former classmates and colleagues of...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2022
A difficult, cantankerous personality who bore grudges and spoke his mind without much regard for the consequences. And one possessed...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2022
Although he has received several major commissions, not least from the Royal Opera House and the BBC Proms, this is...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022
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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