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...
With a CV that takes in such new music luminaries as the chamber group Alarm Will Sound and the bands...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2013
Soon enough we sail towards the familiar, motoric minor-toned triads, curiously reminiscent of Philip Glass but actually Old Europe: Schubert,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2013
A few months ago I reviewed two new discs of Mendelssohn’s cello music (12/12). Ultimately, neither Luca Fiorentini (Brilliant Classics)...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2013
Like Giya Kancheli, his stablemate at ECM, Victor Kissine now lives and works in Belgium, in his case since 1990....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2013
In terms of her profile in the UK, Jennifer Higdon is best known for such high-octane pieces as the Percussion...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2013
In a booklet-note for this elegant release, Øystein Sonstad, the Quartet’s cellist, argues for Schubert’s D810 being the inspiration behind...
Reviewed in issue 07/2013
Years ago I was gently castigated by a colleague for bemoaning the abundance of Beethoven symphony recordings at a time...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2013
Ronald Corp’s first two string quartets appeared on Naxos in 2011, played by the Maggini Quartet. The first item on...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2013
We can thank Danny Driver for researching and devising this latest addition to Hyperion’s absorbing York Bowen series. The programme...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2013
There are now over a dozen recordings of Biber’s superb meditative cycle of 15 violin sonatas and a passacaglia linked...
Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 07/2013
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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