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 engaging recital focuses on music from the first half of the 16th century known to have been performed by...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2016
It is becoming ever more routine to couple both Shostakovich piano trios together, and with the half-hour Viola Sonata and...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2016
The Cologne-based Asasello Quartet have programmed Arnold Schoenberg’s four string quartets in reverse order, a journey from the natty arithmetic...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2016
In the booklet Roman Mints writes of a pre first sonata of Schnittke that he decided not to record because...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2016
Steve Reich will be 80 this year – a landmark date that will no doubt encourage some to reflect on...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2016
Mozart’s piano trios don’t come out to play as often as Haydn’s, despite being among his finest chamber works. (Similarly...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2016
Like so many 17th-century Italian musicians, Giovanni Legrenzi led a peripatetic life. Following a conventional enough start to his career...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2016
The four violin sonatas that Charles Ives assembled between 1902 and 1915 have never been big hitters in the same...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2016
Naming your new trio after one of the greatest chamber ensembles of the 20th century certainly suggests noble aspirations, and...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2016
Perhaps Rebecca Clarke’s time is finally approaching. It is only a few months since the Italian viola player Diana Bonatesta...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 09/2016
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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