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...
As the booklet note confirms, this recording is ‘a celebration of 30 years of music-making’ between the splendid Galliard Ensemble...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2024
Trio Gaspard return with a third selection from across Haydn’s output of piano trios. The C major and E minor...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024
It’s beginning to feel a bit like buses with Bojan Čičić: you spend ages thinking how enjoyable it would be...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024
Couperin’s four Concerts royaux – each a suite of about half a dozen devilishly attractive instrumental movements, mostly dances –...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2024
How to do written justice to the delights here in hand? Artists-wise, this is a first-ever solo album from Quatuor...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024
This recording of Brahms’s piano quartets featuring the great Hungarian cellist Miklós Perényi, now in his 70s, and a trio...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024
Good things come to those who wait, so the saying goes, and in Richard Baker’s case, it’s been a particularly...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
Mozart had Anton Stadler and Brahms had Richard Mühlfeld – clarinettists who inspired late masterpieces for their instrument. Heinrich Joseph...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024
These days we no longer need be defensive about the Reformation, trashed by Mendelssohn himself, or the symphony-cantata Lobgesang, once...
Reviewed in issue 05/2024
Which is the most important: the journey or its destination? For Gidon Kremer, whose professional career has spanned over half...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
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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