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...
The other day a friend of mine in her 80s told me that she sees an old lady when she...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2022
In reviewing the first volume of Bartók quartets featuring these Dutch-based players I affirmed that ‘the Ragazze Quartet certainly cut...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2022
I’ve followed Café Zimmermann with great interest down the years, and this latest addition to their catalogue is no less...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2022
The teenage Shostakovich’s single-movement First Trio is obviously not a patch on the mature second – the structural seams show...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2022
A comprehensive compendium of music drawn from Finland’s national epic, the Kalevala, would run to many discs (see 6/13 for...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2022
There’s a slight but clear danger to the part-misquote of Macbeth (intentional or otherwise) in the subtitle of this recording:...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2022
How do you reconcile the near-chaotic theatrical rhetoric and flashy bravura of the Italian violin concerto with the greater subtlety,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2022
Paavo Järvi’s Tchaikovsky is undoubtedly a painstaking labour of love. Every single detail has been thought through and is expressed...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 01/2022
Why haven’t I heard of Theodor von Schacht until now? A very skeletal biography for the similarly uninitiated: born in...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2022
>Ludomir Różycki (1883-1953) is far from a household name even in Poland. Józef Kański, in his useful booklet notes, points...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2022
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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