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...
It was an astute move of the Foyle-Štšura Duo to combine the outputs for violin and piano by Lutosławski and...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2019
The coupling isn’t as common as you’d think, which is explained in part by the contradictory currents that were swirling...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2019
It’s possible to have mixed feelings about Franz Anton Hoffmeister. As a publisher, he gave the world Mozart’s Quartet K499;...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2019
The number of string ensembles active may be considerable but Boho Strings is second to none in terms of its...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2019
It’s good to have another disc pairing Dvořák’s two piano quartets – not as popular a choice as you might...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2019
The Fidelio Trio made Editor’s Choice for their Ravel and Saint Saëns piano trios for Resonus (11/16), and this further...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2019
Plenty of charismatic playing here, in a programme clearly planned to entertain. The main attraction is Beethoven’s Septet – not...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2019
According to Audite’s booklet, this is the final volume of Bolet’s (West) Berlin recordings made between 1961 and 1974. The...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2019
The premiere of Madama Butterfly at La Scala, Milan, in 1904 was famously one of operatic history’s great flops. So...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2019
First performed in Rome in 1724, Il Giustino is among the most beautiful and cogent of Vivaldi’s operas. Using a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2019
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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