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...
I thoroughly enjoyed Trio Sōra’s nimble, clear-textured traversal of Beethoven’s six piano trios (Naïve, 12/20), although I found a few...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2024
The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, the brainchild of violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster, has justified its name in several...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2024
Only the first panel of this absorbing triptych is advertised as a first recording, but Viktor Kosenko’s Sonata of 1927...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024
‘Yes, “another” recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons!’ cries Le Concert de la Loge’s violinist director Julien Chauvin at the top...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2024
Shostakovich’s Thirteenth is sonically the most austere of all his symphonies: it features a bass soloist, a male choir and...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 06/2024
Reviewing Marek Janowski’s Beethoven cycle on Pentatone (2/21), Andrew Farach-Colton drew attention to its consistently clear articulation, ‘striking lack of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024
If ‘Soosan Lolavar x Ruthless Jabiru’ initially sounds like the title of a gangsta rap album, nothing could be further...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2024
In the year of his centenary and with its own half-century fast approaching, it made sense for Ensemble Intercontemporain to...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2024
Lachenmann’s title is a playful tease in the spirit of the toy frogs who pop up in his 1983 ensemble...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024
There has not previously been a release devoted to Dani Howard (b1993). Fluent across the broad range of genres (witness...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2024
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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