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...
It is not before time that both these substantial Parry chamber works are at last available on CD. Missing among...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: AW2013
The Leipzig Quartet have already abundantly proved their Mendelssohn credentials with a cycle of the quartets. Now, joined by viola...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2013
Medtner’s three violin-and-piano sonatas represent his only substantial chamber works. He was a gifted pianist but, as listeners will soon...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: AW2013
Paul Griffiths’s candy-coated booklet-notes employ flowery ad-man doublespeak – ‘How times have changed. How a recording can change them’ –...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2013
Prokofiev’s remarkable F minor Violin Sonata cannot but dominate this well-arranged recital and is rightly placed last. Though there will...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: AW2013
The London Haydn Quartet reach the landmark Op 33 in their survey of Haydn’s string quartets played from editions of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2013
The Avison Ensemble continue their stunning Corelli anniversary recording project with two of the less-often-recorded opuses, the sonate da camera....
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: AW2013
The Armenian brother-and-sister team give passionate, deeply felt performances of all three sonatas. Recorded in London’s Wigmore Hall, the sound...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: AW2013
Not quite the surgery without anaesthetic as of later years. But WoO37 for flute, bassoon and piano from the teenage...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW2013
In 2002 Fretwork garnered deserved praise for their viol consort version of Bach’s The Art of Fugue. Many fine solo...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: AW2013
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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