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 Quintet is the peak of Schubert’s chamber output and high on any ensemble’s wish-list. The essential recordings range from...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2016
The title of this release and the glowering skyscape on its cover are pure marketing – the piece from which...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2016
Call me a killjoy, but my pulse rate rarely quickens at the prospect of Mozart’s pre-pubescent music. The three childhood...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2016
The line between poetry and preciousness is a thin one, and I don’t feel the Hagens reliably locate it here....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2016
Beethoven is the obvious and fully acknowledged godparent to David Matthews’s string quartets, and it is to his influence that...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2016
With the exception of some of the big pièces de caractère of Marin Marais, the five suites for bass viol...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2016
When, in 2004, John Zorn’s Tzadik label declared its new recording of Morton Feldman’s 1981 cello-and-piano work Patterns in a...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2016
Who was Rebecca Clarke? You’d be forgiven for asking. Today she’s largely forgotten. In her own opinion her only ‘one...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 05/2016
When Max Bruch’s music was compared unfavourably to Brahms’s, he had his excuse ready: the pram in the hall. ‘I...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2016
Four years after their impressive debut release on Orfeo, the twin-sister piano duo Christina and Michelle Naughton begin a relationship...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2016
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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