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 ‘meaning’ of a Schnittke score has always been more than usually dependent on the context in which it is...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2020
Long relatively neglected on disc, Mozart’s ‘sonatas for harpsichord or fortepiano, with the accompaniment of a violin’, as they were...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2020
Henry Litolff was, in spite of his European-sounding surname, born in Marylebone. He is remembered for that Scherzo, yet how...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2020
Svetlana Boym described nostalgia as ‘a romance with one’s own fantasy’ – pertinent words in the case of Norway, a...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2020
What a gorgeous disc! True, it’d be a poor sort of string quartet who couldn’t make your heart melt with...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2020
Joly Braga Santos (1924 88) was one of the most important Portuguese composers of the 20th century and it is...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2020
At every turn of these engrossing and deeply considered readings, I like how the Brodskys ask questions of the music,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2020
One of the most engaging qualities of the Van Baerle Trio’s Beethoven cycle has been its feeling of intimacy –...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2020
Mozart proclaimed the wind-and-piano quintet of 1784 his favourite among all his works, and the young Beethoven clearly modelled his...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2020
This wonderful disc transports the counterpoint of Johann Sebastian Bach from the solitary universe of the keyboardist’s fingertips – and...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2020
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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