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...
Poulenc wasn’t too sure about violin sonatas: ‘The prima donna violin over arpeggiated piano makes me want to vomit’, he...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2017
I’ve always rather liked the portrait of Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville. With his bonny face, playful smile and tidy steel-coloured...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2017
Is there a greater musical treat than sitting down to listen to a new set of Haydn quartets (well, apart...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2017
Yes, it’s that Goldberg, he of the Variations: the same one whose service as court musician to insomniac Count Keyserlingk...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2017
Glass has long maintained that he is a theatre composer rather than a minimalist, and has drawn inspiration from the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2017
The piano ripples over the opening phrase of the Third Sonata, the violin gives a yearning, wavering cry and immediately...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2017
These five scores by the British composer Laurence Crane were written over a period of 13 years, between 1996 and...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2017
What better way to celebrate an important birthday than with the Beethoven cello sonatas? It’s hard to believe that Ralph...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2017
On the face of it, this is turkey-carving or eggnog-making Bach: an album of instrumental contrafacta, if that isn’t a...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2017
The viola possesses a voice of inimitable mellowness and mysticism, and it is also capable of the ironic gesture, as...
Reviewed 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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