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...
This new account of Beethoven’s last two piano concertos finds Nicholas Angelich in the company of Laurence Equilbey’s period-instrument Insula...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2018
The Ferio Saxophone Quartet made their debut on Chandos last year with ‘Flux’, an imaginatively programmed disc of Romantic and...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2018
The remit of the Marsyas Trio is ‘to inspire a generation of new works’ for the combination of flute, cello...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2018
Rock legend Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd and creator of The Wall, joins forces with players from Long Island’s...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2018
William Sterndale Bennett completed his String Quartet in 1831; he was 15 and halfway through his 10 years of study...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018
The surface finish of these performances by the Van Kuijk Quartet is astonishing, and particularly so given the quartet formed...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2018
If Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber’s name comes first to mind when contemplating brilliant 17th-century Austrian violinists, consider also that...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2018
Dacapo’s traversal of Rued Langgaard’s vast and unruly output continues with this second volume of his music for violin and...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2018
‘He has taste, and the most profound knowledge of composition.’ It’s supremely fitting that Haydn paid his great tribute to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2018
Each issue of Ensemble MidtVest’s Gade series adds to the stylistic and taxonomical riddles surrounding the composer. While previous instalments...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2018
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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