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...
Josetxu Obregón’s imaginative recording of music written for the cello under Spanish influence – usually in Spain but not necessarily...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2015
The Verbier Festival gave Martha Argerich carte blanche to invite her best friends to perform with her for one night...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2015
This anthology constructs a narrative through Italian music ranging across more than a century, from about 1580 to 1700, and...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2015
Who would have thought, even just a few years ago, that we would be seeing a CD whose purpose is...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2015
What a treat it is to hear forgotten chamber music by the English viol player Christopher Simpson, whose four-part Ayres...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 09/2015
A number of previous recordings of Arvo Pärt’s piano music have been released, including Ralph van Raat (Naxos, 12/11), Katarina...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2015
‘Three small, easy and brief concertinos and a couple of quartets for the flute’ is how Mozart described the commission...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2015
What a pleasure to have not one but two recordings of the Mendelssohn piano trios plunk on to my doormat....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2015
Here are 12 more or less self-contained extracts from Wagner’s operas arranged for harmonium and piano duet by Sigfrid Karg...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2015
John Walsh published Handel’s Op 5 Trio Sonatas in 1739 but Challenge’s booklet-note insinuates naively that the composer himself had...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2015
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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...
If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.