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 perky dialogue between oboe and bassoon in André Jolivet’s Sonatine of 1963, while falling outside the general wind-quintet orbit...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2014
The duo for violin and viola, as perfected in Mozart’s two examples, is a particularly satisfying form. The instruments are...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2014
This enterprising programme succeeds through the strength of its contrasts. The opening, bright astringency of Michael Berkeley’s Clarion Call and...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2014
In a few works on this fascinating recording, one can hear perhaps a few faint echoes of the rollicking and...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 05/2014
With origins in the music of Moorish Spain, German chamber music, Italian courtly life and even early flamenco, the viola...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2014
(Greg) Anderson and (Elizabeth Joy) Roe, a thirty-something American piano duo, are not prone to self-deprecation. They are apparently ‘revolutionizing...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2014
The Mainz Virtuosi are a multinational string ensemble comprising fellow students at the Hochschule für Musik in Mainz. As they...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2014
It’s most pleasant to meet an unknown composer from the past. János Végh (1845-1918) came from an aristocratic family and...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2014
This is the eighth disc of Sarasate that the violinist Tianwa Yang has recorded for Naxos. It has the great...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 05/2014
Hjálmar Helgi Ragnarsson is one of the leading Icelandic composers of the middle generation, his first compositions dating from the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014
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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