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...
What with The Musketeers and Versailles on BBC television, 17th-century France is on a roll at the moment. It can...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2016
What’s in a name? Michael Collins’s debut recital disc for EMI (9/92) was part of the label’s Virtuosi series and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2016
In August 2014 Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim came together at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, for their first-ever joint...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016
The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic play tangos: you just know it’s going to sound gorgeous, and it does....
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016
Vierne endured an unfairly troublous life: he was born nearly blind; both his wife and subsequent partner left him; he...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016
Mark Simpson has said that extramusical ideas or narrative structures help his music ‘flow’ more easily. The only work on...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2016
It is tempting, for simplicity’s sake, to describe Prokofiev’s violin sonatas as polar opposites – at least in terms of...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 08/2016
If Michael Praetorius’s music has been widely anthologised, the same is not true of his close contemporary, Erasmus Widmann, who...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2016
Anthony Poole (c1629-1692) is an obscure composer, no doubt of that. The catalogue of his works runs to over 300...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2016
Mozart’s penchant for lower-voiced instruments found one of its finest chamber outlets in the Kegelstatt Trio, K498, supposedly composed during...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2016
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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