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...
This pair of discs on the Divine Art label brings together four consistently attractive works that defy the fashion of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2013
The music of Sunleif Rasmussen (b1961) has been attracting sustained attention in recent years, especially following the award of the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2014
The Mandelring Quartet have been garnering warm reviews for their Mendelssohn series which, enterprisingly, encompasses the complete string chamber music...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2014
The Henschel Quartet have always known their own minds and so it is hardly surprising that they should have put...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2014
One of the misfortunes in new music is that relatively few composers from south-western Europe have gained wider prominence, thus...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2014
In about 1730-31 the London publisher John Walsh issued a collection of six Handel trio sonatas called ‘Opus 2’, for...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2014
Midori brings her highly accomplished manner to three works very different in their demands. She is sweet rather than impassioned...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 01/2014
Anyone familiar with Christian Tetzlaff’s Gramophone Award-winning recording of Schumann’s piano trios (EMI, 7/11) will not be surprised to hear...
Reviewed in issue 01/2014
‘Around the World’ takes us to Hungary/Romania (Bartók), India (Ravi Shankar), France (Christian Rivet), Germany/England (Handel), Spain (Ohana), America (Carter),...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2013
Something fairly improbable but thoroughly refreshing. Margit Kern is an accordion player not just of astonishing skill but also with...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/2013
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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