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...
Métier continues its welcome coverage of Nicola LeFanu with this volume of four works spanning some 46 years of her...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2024
Crisp, brightly sharp-edged and powerful, vibrato-less and pleasantly dry, the opening chord of Haydn’s Piano Trio in E minor, HobXV:12,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2024
If you were seeking to dispel the image of Gernsheim as an epigone of Brahms and a lesser-known contemporary of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2024
In 2022 Naxos released a recording of Enescu’s 1909 Piano Quartet No 1 by an ensemble led by pianist Josu...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2024
‘The Joy of Cellos’ would be an appropriate subtitle for this elegant, playful, infectious recital curated by Elinor Frey. The...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2024
You’d have to have a heart of stone not to be stopped in your tracks at the outset of this...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2024
Writing in general terms, there seem to be two principal routes to the heart of these marvellous works, one relatively...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2024
This album of Bach’s Six Sonatas, BWV1014‑19, is accompanied by a lengthy and excellently detailed note from Bach scholar David...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2024
Trio Zimbalist – pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu, violinist Josef Špaček and cellist Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin – took their name from Efrem...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2024
A whole lot is promised in this double-disc release. The words ‘world premiere recording’ are used eight times in the...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2024
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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