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 big story here is the first recording of a previously undiscovered seventh unaccompanied violin sonata by Eugène Ysaÿe. Philippe...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2019
Xenakis’s orchestral works have not entered the repertoire but those for ensemble have often found a niche; not least his...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2019
There’s something rather fun about the idea of pairing Shostakovich’s two shortest quartets – the Seventh and First – with...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2019
If you are familiar with any of the music of Johan Helmich Roman, it is probably his Drottningholmsmusiken that you...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2019
The Klenke Quartet play modern instruments but are assiduous in their application of historically informed performance practice. Vibrato is employed...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019
Lithuanian-born and New York-based, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (b1973) has built a substantial and varied catalogue (further details at zibuokle.com), little known...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2019
In the engagingly written booklet notes accompanying this debut release from the young French Quatuor Akilone they talk in some...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2019
I can’t recall a Haydn quartet disc provoking such mixed feelings as this debut album from the young Jubilee Quartet....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2019
It’s a happy sight to see Stefan Temmingh follow up last year’s excellent album of Vivaldi and Bach recorder concertos...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2019
What a warmly serene introduction to the music of Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714) we’ve been given here by François Joubert-Caillet...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2019
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
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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