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...
Linking these three violin sonatas under the title ‘Sounds of War’ produces a powerful recital. Each work caused its composer...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 06/2015
This is Singaporean cellist Brendan Goh’s second recording (the first was a charity CD), and the title presumably refers to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2015
There are so many violin sonatas by Italian composers from the first half of the 18th century that mixed anthologies...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2015
This truly outstanding CD is not only ideally programmed and superbly played – using a clarinet from 1830 and a...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue:
Putting one’s finger on the personality of Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) can be bewildering and defeating. His core sensibility is elusive,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2015
Here is a more than respectable calling-card for the young Anglo-Irish Carducci Quartet, who clearly have the technical measure of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2015
Pentatone has packaged together the two volumes of Schubert recorded by Julia Fischer and Martin Helmchen in 2009. The performances...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue:
In his Piano Trio, completed in 2010, Aulis Sallinen imagined ‘the sensuous world of a painter going blind’. It seems...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2015
Terry Riley’s In C extends an open invitation. Instrumentalists and singers with even rudimentary technical skills will likely have sufficient...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2015
The composer and virtuoso harpsichordist Vittorio Rieti (1898-1994) is best known for his long and enduring friendship with Igor Stravinsky,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark 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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