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...
Michael Collins and Noriko Ogawa’s survey of French clarinet music interweaves sonatas by Poulenc and Saint-Saëns with four works written...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2021
What an eloquent player Luis Cabrera is. In his extensive booklet note, the Spanish-born bassist explains that the album’s title,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2021
Much admired in these pages for their interpretations of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the Sitkovetskys make their first foray into French...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2021
While Penderecki’s intimate relationship with string instruments is well known, his output for string quartet per se is curious, not...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2021
Peter Hanson has enjoyed a long career in period ensembles, primarily as leader of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique since...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2021
Mozart complained that these three quartets – which may or may not have been commissioned by King Friedrich Wilhelm II...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2021
This album offers a stirring and refreshing journey through the lights and shades of Mendelssohn’s lyrical and ethereal quintets. The...
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 09/2021
The only other violinist who in my experience ignites imagined rustic campfires as vividly as does Barnabás Kelemen is Grigoraș...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2021
It’s many a year since I’ve heard string quartet-playing that’s more sheerly beautiful than this, whether in the sum of...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2021
There’s a strange blend, sometimes remarkably so, to this performance by Les inAttendus. Will it replace the string quartet? No,...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2021
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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