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...
Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935) is one of the most fascinating figures in American music. Born near Berlin and raised in...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2024
All is well with the world in these serenades by Gál and Krenek, which breathe the same Viennese air of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2024
Robert Fuchs is a largely forgotten name these days but in 19th-century Vienna he was very much an established part...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024
The rhetorical question arises, listening to this particular instrumental line-up: why doesn’t every composer write a horn trio? In the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2024
Best known for his writings on music (notably The Power of the Moment; Pendragon Press: 2011), Martin Boykan (1931-2021) was...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024
As his extensive discography makes plain, clarinettist Guy Yehuda is always on the lookout to place Jewish-related music and Jewish...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024
These are, in their own modest way, quite daring interpretations of Beethoven’s six ‘early’ quartets. There have been other recordings...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2024
Artur Schnabel’s dictum that great music is always greater than it can ever be performed is never more apposite than...
Reviewed in issue 07/2024
The mid-18th-century Berlin court of Frederick the Great has been much visited by recording artists over the years, such that...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2024
There are now enough recordings of Pēteris Vasks’s first violin concerto Distant Light (1997) to furnish a Gramophone Collection. Here...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2024
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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