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 Artea Quartet have been playing together for 15 years so it’s a neat choice to record Schubert’s 15th Quartet....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2018
Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time (1940 41) is arguably the 20th century’s most startling musical portrayal of social...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2018
The Berlin Piano Quartet offer an unusual line-up of composers, including the only complete movement of Mahler’s teenage Piano Quartet....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2018
With extremism once more an ever-present fact of life, the timing of this disc, featuring three string quartets protesting Europe’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2018
There’s much to admire in the Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch’s interpretation of Schumann’s D minor Trio: the expressive shaping of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2018
There’s no lack of personalities on display here, but unlike the recent Trout Quintet, indubitably led by Anne-Sophie Mutter (DG,...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2018
You can tell a lot about a performance of Beethoven’s Quartet Op 18 No 2 from its first bar. It’s...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2018
‘Variations on Variations’ sees Rinaldo Alessandrini take keyboard works by JS Bach which adopt the variation as their generating musical...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2018
This programme brings together some of the most seductive songs of Joseph Marx, Walter Braunfels, Korngold and Pfitzner in a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2018
It might not be immediately clear from the cover what this recital actually is. Claudia and Grégory Moulin are billed...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2018
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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