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 Toronto-based ARC Ensemble continue their rehabilitation of 20th-century Jewish composers from across the ideological divide with three chamber works...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2021
If you wanted to make the point that 21st-century string quartet-playing is defined by a virtuosity so agile that it’s...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2021
In the booklet interview Anne Gastinel talks of her longstanding love for Chopin, having played the piano for over a...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2021
For Arcangelo to follow Handel’s Brockes Passion so soon with trio sonatas by Buxtehude is an eloquent demonstration of their...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2021
The first edition of Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata described it as ‘scritta in un stilo molto concertante’, and the problem for...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2021
A music sequence that is especially close to the hearts of these prodigiously gifted siblings, the Barber Sonata penned by...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2021
Fred Thomas’s transcriptions for piano trio of Bach organ and vocal works aim to replicate the ways various stops on...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021
Currently, the Presto Classical database lists some dozen albums of the music of Éric Tanguy (b1968), but only one other...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021
Born in Amsterdam in 1994, educated at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and the recipient of a clutch of musical prizes,...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2021
By all rights, Urbs Roma should be Saint Saëns’s Second Symphony – or even, if one counts the delightfully precocious...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2021
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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