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...
Although his music has been little heard in the UK, Niels Rosing-Schow (b1954) is a leading voice in Danish new...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2015
A star in his native Austria, Benjamin Schmid has never been a conventional virtuoso. His discography tends to avoid the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2015
This bodes well: ‘Hidden Gems, Vol 1’. Ignaz Joseph Pleyel is a name more remembered for his piano firm than...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2015
This issue contains a genuine rarity – Messiaen’s 1933 violin-and-piano Fantasie – already fully characteristic of his earlier manner, yet...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2015
There is no doubt that there is the sort of energy on this disc, particularly in the Mendelssohn, that is...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2015
Not many readers, even those of us who worship at the shrine of Franz Liszt, will have encountered these works...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2015
Jean Benjamin de La Borde (1734 94) – France’s own Charles Burney – composed three beguiling collections of accompanied songs...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2015
Janáček’s two string quartets are now classics, lending themselves to different interpretations, of which these by the admirable Doric Quartet...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2015
'This is a disc that arguably should never have been made.’ That’s Red Priest themselves writing in the booklet accompanying...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2015
Grieg’s 1882/83 Cello Sonata was premiered by the composer accompanying Friedrich Grützmacher (the cellist who made up Boccherini concertos). It...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman 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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