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...
Eighteenth-century keyboard trios were regularly billed as ‘sonatas for the harpsichord or fortepiano, with the accompaniment of violin and violoncello’....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2016
The writer Iain Sinclair once told me in an interview that Beat culture provided him with a very necessary escape...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2016
When Brahms played through his First Cello Sonata with its dedicatee, Josef Gänsbacher, the cellist apparently complained that he couldn’t...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016
The Ophelia of Hans Abrahamsen’s let me tell you (2013), the contemporary ‘work of the moment’, surrenders to the deadly...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2016
It maybe seems a bit unfair to pit Strauss’s brilliant Till Eulengspiegel against Die Seejungfrau, more of a slow-burn affair...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2016
Van der Aa acolytes may be surprised at the lack of a visual element in his new Violin Concerto (2014),...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2016
Bartomiej Nizio (b1974 in Poland) has a seductively silky smooth tone and a narrow vibrato, and plays with exactly the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016
When the Pittsburgh composer David Stock died last year, aged 76, he was celebrated for the hearty contributions he had...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 08/2016
Virtuoso conducting and immaculate orchestral playing, for sure, but there are drawbacks. Finlandia distils plenty of truculent defiance but there’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2016
With this sixth and final volume in his series of the ‘Complete Symphonic Works’, Heinz Holliger mops up the remaining...
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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