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...
Beethoven composed these works as ‘Sonatas for pianoforte and violin’. The common designation, ‘violin sonatas’, is acceptable, I suppose, but...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2014
Not perfunctory but not penetrating either. The Quartetto di Cremona are equal to technical demands but often wary of total...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2014
Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio set the example for Russian composers, perhaps with memories of Glinka’s Trio pathétique, of the medium as...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2014
Vasily Petrenko rounds off his cycle of Rachmaninov symphonies for Warner (formerly EMI) Classics with this characteristically articulate and highly...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2014
This unusual coupling works by contrast, the Grieg’s overt lyricism offset by the more feisty, wintry fairy-tale magic of the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014
Julian Anderson (b1967) is Mark-Anthony Turnage’s successor as the London Philharmonic’s resident composer. While his own music is not untouched...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014
It was a sad day for Sullivan when his ‘romantic musical drama’ The Beauty Stone ran for only 50 performances...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 01/2014
'A Latvian soprano who has dazzled audiences in New York and Vienna with her impassioned performance of Donna Anna,’ proclaims...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2014
With his long experience as conductor and composer, Peter Eötvös will have been well aware of other operas centring on...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2014
Bells and birds seem to be the subtext of Momo Kodama’s recital but her playing does not consistently ring out...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2014
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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