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...
Champs Hill Records’ exploration of chamber music byways continues apace, alighting here on four uncomplicated and rather pretty sonatas by...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014
Rarely can two works that share the one opus number have hailed from such different musical worlds, in the case...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2014
For all Elgar Liebhaber, those crucial years of his autodidactic apprenticeship in Worcester seem endlessly intriguing, particularly in how he...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 06/2014
Eight decades after he completed his first acknowledged composition – a song he called ‘My love is in a light...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2014
There are (in my view) two contributions to the horn repertory that stand out above all others: Mozart’s four captivating...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 06/2014
Martin Berteau (1708 71) gave up the great French tradition of bass viol-playing in favour of the cello after hearing...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014
Not always profound Beethoven, but genuine Beethoven all the same. With a connection too: the theme from the second movement...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2014
Strangely miked, oddly presented. David Breitman is placed due right, Paul McNulty’s copy of an Anton Walter fortepiano stuck in...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2014
Germany, and Bayreuth in particular, were not exactly forthcoming with official releases for Wagner 200 year. Thielemann, the festival’s de...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2014
The Florentine countertenor Filippo Mineccia presents 14 alto arias for both male and female characters drawn from nine different works,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014
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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