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...
The many virtues and occasional drawbacks characterising the first two instalments of François-Frédéric Guy’s Beethoven cycle spill over into this...
Reviewed by Distler in issue: 08/2013
Sophie Yates offers eight of Bach’s 16 Weimar-period concerto transcriptions in performances that outclass most of the catalogue competition. In...
Reviewed by Distler in issue: 08/2013
The German-born cellist Jan Vogler is a veteran of many recordings of cello repertoire, including Bach’s sonatas for harpsichord and...
Reviewed in issue 08/2013
Hopkinson Smith’s complete recording of JS Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin as transcribed by Smith for 13-course Baroque...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2013
Alkan remains music’s bogeyman, prompting the widest variety of responses [see feature, page 36]. For Pascal Amoyel he is a...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2013
The piano trio in Denmark is alive and well, judging from this new release by Trio Con Brio Copenhagen, which...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2013
The Hebrew word nigun (plural nigunim) means ‘tune’ or ‘melody’ in the form of an instrumental improvisation, secular or religious,...
Reviewed by IMarch in issue: 08/2013
Howard Ferguson’s oeuvre is modest in extent but distinctive in character. His Second Violin Sonata of 1946 is concise and...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2013
The reputation of Fartein Valen (1887-1952) lies chiefly on his polished, atonal orchestral works, including four symphonies, a masterly –...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2013
This is Vol 3 in Cedille’s ‘The Soviet Experience’ series. The previous two discs have received welcoming reviews elsewhere, with...
Reviewed by IMarch in issue: 08/2013
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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