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...
Toccata Classics renews its coverage of Gerard Schurmann, Javanese-born British composer resident in the US. Early established for his film scores,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW17
Scarcely a note of adverse criticism has attended the three previous issues in this delightful series of accompanied sonatas from...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW17
A keen sense of time and place – and increasingly of man’s transient existence within it – forms an important theme in...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW17
Composers and performers alike may strive for an improvisatory impulse in their music-making, but that’s rather different from allowing improvisatory freedom...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW17
The Josef Suk Piano Quartet take their name from the great violinist rather than his composer grandfather, whose Op 1 they perform....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW17
In their quickly expanding discography Jonathan Cohen’s Arcangelo are showing themselves to be among the most versatile ensembles around, as...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW17
Music of high organisation, clarity and expressive power here from Rory Boyle, born in Ayr in 1951 and currently professor...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW17
Joseph Boismortier (1689-1755) may be well represented on disc but it’s fair to say that his name rarely sets the pulse truly racing....
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW17
The string trio is usually thought of in its Classical format, for one each of violin, viola and cello. It...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW17
PR blurbs can be revealing. The cover states that the violinist Ji Young Lim is ‘accompanied by fellow South Korean Dong Hyek Lim’. No...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW17
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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