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...
It began in West Yorkshire, back in the earliest days of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, when California-based composer Roger...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2015
Having given us a solo Ornstein disc back in 2002 (10/02), Marc-André Hamelin here offers the hypertrophic Piano Quintet. Composed...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW2015
Thanks to the admiring accounts of the likes of John Evelyn and Roger North, we know a fair bit about...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2015
Recorded the better part of 10 years ago, here’s a disc of four Haydn piano trios, none of them perhaps...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2015
Nicola Francesco Haym (1678-1729) is not a totally obscure figure. Although this release may well be the first to add...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2015
Best known as the author of several song cycles, hence the soubriquet of ‘the English Schumann’, Arthur Somervell was nevertheless...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: AW2015
A new set of Beethoven’s string trios is always a welcome event, and this one, by a group named after...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2015
None of these pieces was written for cello and harpsichord, and at no stage does that matter one bit. Bach’s...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2015
The Rose Consort of Viols’ first collaboration with mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson, the Awards-nominated ‘Adoramus te’ (Deux-Elles, A/14), was a domestic...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2015
The German mezzo Michaela Schuster is best known as an operatic animal, with a repertoire that includes big-hitting Wagner and...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2015
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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