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 booklet-note for this release asks a total of three times the question ‘is Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di anima e di...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2015
This is becoming a bit of a habit. The Pavel Haas Quartet record a disc. Critics swoon and reach for...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2015
This is not the first time Michala Petri has juxtaposed recorder works from Britain and her home country, Denmark. A...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2015
During a prestigious career stretching back to 1981, the horn player Richard Watkins has held posts with the Fires of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2015
Rarely is a disc so blissfully unconcerned with accounting for itself in the marketplace. While ‘Preludes in Times Past and...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2015
As exciting album titles go – ‘Hot Rats’, ‘The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady’ or ‘The Kinks Kontroversy’ –...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015
Ever since Glinka’s Trio pathétique of 1832, Russian composers have associated the piano trio with elegy, among them Arensky for...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2015
Taneyev was one of the few people from whom his teacher Tchaikovsky would tolerate criticism, though Taneyev himself regretted that...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2015
I didn’t much care for the version of Stockhausen’s Mantra that Xenia Pestova, Pascal Meyer and Jan Panis issued via...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015
This is the second joint release from Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet. Last time it was in Schumann’s Quintet...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2015
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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