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...
Any mid-20th-century composer as upfront and exuberant in his embrace of modernist and avant-garde techniques as Bruno Maderna was bound...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2024
Haydn’s output for the baryton is one of those facets of his artistry that is more known about than it...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
It’s one thing to say that you’re recording a programme of music fit for an 18th-century evening’s domestic music-making. It’s...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024
The Karski Quartet, founded in Belgium in 2018, take their name from Jan Karski, a Second World War resistance fighter,...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 01/2024
The larger chamber combinations of wind and strings – one thinks of Beethoven’s Septet, Schubert’s Octet and the nonets of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2024
I found much to admire in the first instalment of Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon’s survey of the Beethoven violin...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
The Doric are perhaps the foremost British string quartet at the moment, so their turn to Beethoven in their 25th-anniversary...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
The six Op 18 Quartets now under their belts, the Chiaroscuro Quartet have chosen for the next instalment of their...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2024
Yet another album of Bach’s sonatas for viola da gamba and obbligato harpsichord, I hear you sigh. Yet gambist Andrea...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2024
Just three years have passed since the United Strings of Europe released their first recording (2/21), but the London-based group...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024
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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