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...
This fifth release on the Sacconi Quartet’s own label comprises two quartets in A minor: Beethoven’s Op 132, and Op...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016
JS Bach’s sonatas for transverse flute and harpsichord throw up all sorts of awkward questions for musicologists, not least the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2016
‘Oh my God! I would love to play with her’ is Itzhak Perlman’s exclamation in the single-page conversation that precedes...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2016
Since no one knows if Bach actually intended anyone to play The Art of Fugue at all – it was...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2016
‘It seems that the Ninth is a limit. He who wants to go beyond it must pass away. It seems...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW16
Grigory Sokolov’s 1975 recording of the Hammerklavier Sonata is a minute faster overall than his live account from the 2013...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW16
Fiona Shaw’s production of Britten’s first chamber opera opened during the Glyndebourne tour in 2013 – the composer’s centenary year...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW16
Die Königin von Saba was the work that put its Hungarian-Jewish composer on the operatic map at its first performance...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW16
This is an astounding recording, on account of both the repertoire selected and the quality of the singing. The choir...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW16
Ernst Krenek wrote his Reisebuch – the text as well as the music – in a few weeks in the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW16
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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