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 Quatuor Cambini-Paris have so far tended to focus on the more esoteric areas of the quartet repertoire – notably...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2015
Two violinists playing mid-18th-century French music without continuo? Leclair published two sets 17 years apart, of which this, the second,...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2015
I cannot recall quite so targeted a selection of John Jenkins’s viol music: previous recitals by Phantasm, Fretwork and Jérôme...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2015
Occupying the central place in the canon of Romantic violin repertoire as it does, Franck’s Violin Sonata is programmed in...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2015
This album explores Brahms’s lifelong fascination with Hungarian idioms. The programme, following the Quintet, comprises a series of arrangements by...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2015
Like other Norwegian Romantics with ears open to modern trends – Grieg and Ibsen come immediately to mind – Hjalmar...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2015
Personal projection at the highest level predominates in Op 70 No 1. From the fortissimo up-rush, Allegro vivace e con...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2015
Sapellnikoff’s Tchaikovsky Concerto has appeared on CD before (notably Pearl GEMMCD9163) but not his complete extant recordings (the sides he...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015
The fusion of old and new styles characterising harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani’s DG debut unfolds with a sense of continuity and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015
The concept of masks both real and abstract purportedly unifies the present recital’s diverse offerings; but the disc also adds...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015
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...
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