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...
Technical polish, intelligent musicianship, well-reasoned tempi, and scrupulously executed ornaments characterise Charles Owen’s Bach Partitas, along with a rounded and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2016
Unless you’re a clarinet geek, the name Franz Tausch might not mean too much. He was an important clarinettist during...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2016
Although only five years separate Tchaikovsky’s first and last string quartets, they are stylistically very different. The First, written in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2016
Stanford’s Fifth String Quartet walks out with a spring in its step and a song on its lips: not, perhaps,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016
With this live set, captured last March in Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw (not to be confused with the venerable Concertgebouw), the Brodsky...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2016
The Benvenue Fortepiano Trio (and friends) tear into the opening of Schumann’s Quintet with gusto, making the most of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016
The choice of the first of Saint-Saëns’s two string quartets is a rather apt pairing with the Quintet in that...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2016
Steve Reich began transforming speech into music in the mid 1960s. I vividly remember my first encounter with Come Out...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016
Ignaz Pleyel is one of those figures who seems to pop up everywhere: as both composition student of Haydn and...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016
Amateur chamber musicians will need no introduction to Georges Onslow. One of his 30-odd two-cello quintets usually gets pulled from...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016
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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