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...
Maurice Steger’s latest album draws on the manuscript library of Count von Harrach, an elderly musical and recorder-minded Austrian diplomat...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2017
At least two challenges face any violinist who plays Fritz Kreisler’s music. First, there are the inimitable recordings by Kreisler...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2017
One of the most renowned clarinetists on the new music scene, Carl Rosman has worked closely with each of the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2017
This disc’s title comes from the fact that three of its virtuoso-composers were compared in their day either to an...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2017
It was a sensible choice for Augustin Hadelich and Joyce Yang to put André Previn’s Tango Song and Dance first...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2017
My colleague Andrew Mellor’s smart little analysis of the cul-de-sac into which Kaija Saariaho has driven her work during the...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2017
This review wrote itself. All the marvellous traits I noted in Vols 1 3 (2/14, 11/14, 3/16) apply here: the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2017
Although Borodin and Tchaikovsky wrote string quartets and, in Tchaikovsky’s case, a piano trio that have maintained their rightful place...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2017
Johannes Moser is palpably a gifted cellist, lending his warm tone to two very different Russian sonatas. I was momentarily...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2017
The Japanese violinist Lisa Oshima has by no means gone for the easier option here, choosing, instead of Prokofiev’s more...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2017
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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