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...
By the time you read this, Ashkenazy will have turned 80 – which seems almost unbelievable. He has been turning...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2017
Given how rare it is to find a centuries-old instrumental work to be really, genuinely funny, it’s tempting to take...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2017
Listeners unfamiliar with this composer have more than likely heard his playing, Colin Twigg (b1960) having been a violinist in...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2017
It’s quite rare that a clarinet disc focuses on Robert Schumann. A clarinettist’s chamber repertoire tends to be built upon...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2017
This is – I believe – the first commercial recording of music by Kevin Raftery (b1952), an expatriate American composer...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2017
Gramophone’s classification (12/08) of the LSO as the fourth-best orchestra in the world always made me think of The Housemartins,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2017
The three concertos designated K107 are in fact arrangements of sonatas (Op 5 Nos 2 4) by JC Bach, whom...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2017
‘How I Met Mozart’: how indeed? Don’t look for answers in the booklet of this CD, which includes several pictures...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2017
When we tot up the profit-and-loss account of Niels Gade’s bicentenary year in December, I fear it won’t be CPO’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2017
What does a disc of Romantic French violin sonatas suggest to you? Subtle colours, belle époque elegance, the ‘play of...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2017
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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