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...
Michael Collins and his pianist Michael McHale present us with a programme of pieces all expertly written for the clarinet,...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2014
For this recital, Lenka Torgersen and her colleagues bring together three 18th-century violinist-composers born in what is now the Czech...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2014
With its high-flown title and highly abstract booklet-notes, some listeners might be put off from sampling this album. However, I’d...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2014
This disc, on the ever-enterprising Stone label, brings together an attractive collection of rare viola music by British composers. It...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2014
Although it bears little resemblance to that of Shostakovich, the music of Mieczysław Weinberg nevertheless expounds similar values: the grim...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2014
Those who think that Telemann was a skilful, formulaic Baroque note-spinning concerto machine need to hear his music played by...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2014
There have been, in the last 20 years or so, a number of recordings of Stanford’s music for violin and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2014
The Heilig (ie Sanctus) for double choir turns up on this Harmonia Mundi recording that recreates part of a Hamburg...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2014
Another month, another Schubert C major Quintet. For any new version to make its mark it has to be pretty...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2014
Standing by a piano, holding a teapot – and with an impish glint in his eye that is unmistakably reminiscent...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2014
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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