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...
A decade has elapsed since Naxos issued the first CD of Tom Winpenny performing organ music by Judith Bingham. In...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2021
Thomas de Hartmann (1885-1956) was one of musical history’s ‘nearly men’. As Elan Sicroff – the pianist in all three...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2021
Solo practitioners have increased markedly over recent decades but the double bass remains limited as to repertoire. All the more...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2021
Recitals focusing on Renaissance viol consorts are pretty thin on the ground. (One thinks back to a series of recordings...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2021
The music featured here is a tale of extremes, with the piano trios still relatively under-recorded, while the Quintet and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2021
Amid a vast array of recordings of Mozart’s lavish Gran Partita, performances on 18th-century instruments are still comparatively rare. Which...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2021
How many, one wonders, in that first audience of the Quartet for the End of Time in Stalag VIII-A on...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2021
When the 28-year-old Mendelssohn composed his three Op 44 string quartets during 1837-38, life was going exceedingly well. In his...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2021
From the evidence on this and Oliver Triendl and friends’ previous disc of Josef Labor’s chamber music (Capriccio, 12/19), the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2021
Back in 2016 I enjoyed the forthright drive of Julian Bliss playing Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet with the Carducci Quartet (Signum,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2021
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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