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...
>Arias & Barcarolles, its title borrowed from a post-concert presidential faux pas, was Leonard Bernstein’s last major work. ‘I like...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2013
Ensemble XX Jahrhundert has operated out of Vienna since 1971, the group’s core mission to champion Schoenberg, Webern and Berg...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2013
The young(-ish) musicians of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta here celebrate the 25th anniversary of their ensemble in style. The care that...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2013
If this disc shows anything most of all, it is the mastery that Schumann displayed as a Lieder writer. The...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2013
CPO are certainly flying the flag for Beethoven’s friend and one-time pupil Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838), who made his name as...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2013
No sooner has the dust settled on Frank Peter Zimmermann’s wonderful disc of three of Hindemith’s sonatas for violin and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2013
This is a delectable way into Fauré’s chamber music should it be unfamiliar territory. The First Piano Quartet is Fauré...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2013
Philip Sawyers is a professional violinist and teacher who for 20 years played with the orchestra of the Royal Opera...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2013
As prelude and postlude to their disc of Corelli trio sonatas, Stravaganza have included two pieces by Giovanni Battista Reali,...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 12/2013
NMC assemblages such as this can be an opportunity for composers to set out their stall or to introduce themselves...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow 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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