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...
Bored of Beethoven? Judging from the advance reaction to next year’s 250th anniversary celebrations, some people already are. Perhaps you...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019
This disc is a sort of 10th-anniversary gift from the Benyounes Quartet to themselves: a programme of three works with...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019
‘The Trio Sonata Project’ takes inspiration from the Baroque practice of arranging pre existing music by other composers for a...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 05/2019
The string quartet as a genre always held a special fascination for William Alwyn and while a young composer he...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2019
Like many cellists, Alban Gerhardt says he has been wary of recording the Bach Suites before he was good and...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2019
This is the third account I’ve had of Mendelssohn’s concertos in as many months and, from the off, the young...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2019
That Isabelle Faust and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin have let this Bach violin concertos album run to nearly...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2019
I honestly can’t remember hearing a performance of this extraordinary symphony that was so plainly in love with its ethos,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2019
Note that the simple, elegant air de cour would eventually form part of the basis for French Baroque opera. And...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2019
The first thing that strikes you about ‘Perpetual Twilight’ is the sheer number and quality of young tenors. Soloist after...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2019
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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