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...
The Chilingirian’s cycle of Mozart’s six string quintets has been nine years in the making and I’m sorry to have...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2016
With this, we reach the concluding disc of the Mendelssohn cycle by the Escher Quartet. As with previous instalments (8/15...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2016
In his recent memoir, Words Without Music (Faber, 7/15), Philip Glass was keen to put paid to the rumour that...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2016
Gramophone readers will forever associate Julius Eastman with Peter Maxwell Davies’s own 1970 recording of Eight Songs for a Mad...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2016
The Bartholdy Quintet was formed in 2009 as a two-viola string quintet, and I can’t, off the top of my...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016
Talk about spoiling the ship for a ha’porth of tar. Actually, don’t: the art of balancing piano and strings on...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016
This set of the 10 Beethoven violin sonatas took me by surprise. Let’s start with the sound, which is exceptionally...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016
Relistening to the Emerson Quartet’s Gramophone Award-winning Bartók cycle for September’s Classics Reconsidered, I was reminded of how, as recently...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016
It’s not exactly a recipe for cohesion – a collection of little-known works from Armenia, England and Switzerland, representing the...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 12/2016
Writing in 1916, Yeats spoke of ‘Art whose end is peace’. Now, 100 turbulent years later, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato returns...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2016
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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