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...
Interesting the different available approaches to Op 106, among them the Prague Quartet, alert, vibrant, very full-on, The Lindsays and...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015
Bernard Herrmann was not satisfied with being a film composer of genius: he wanted to conquer the concert hall too,...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 07/2015
Ensemble-in-residence at Belgium’s Cultureel Centrum Maasmechelen, the Parnassus Akademie was founded by cellist Michael Gross, best known for his work...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2015
This album comes from a pair of live recitals given at Alice Tully Hall in March. The three piano quartets...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2015
‘Placid and melodious’ is how The Record Guide (1951/55) described these clarinet sonatas, the verdict of placidity contradicted by many...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2015
As Jorrit Tamminga amusingly recounts in his booklet-note, it was a chance encounter with Boulez that led to his musical...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2015
The Sei Terzettini were written over a period of about a year from 1793, 25 years after Boccherini arrived in...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2015
Linn’s fast-building accumulation of core Baroque repertory continues here with the sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord, six wondrous works...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2015
Valentina Lisitsa’s emotionally charged and technically accomplished renditions of Chopin, Schumann and Rachmaninov et al have proved to be popular...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2015
Spliced together from a couple of critically acclaimed concerts towards the end of September 2013, this latest helping of Tchaikovsky...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2015
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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