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...
A neat programme, this. Like a football tournament, ‘The London Flute’ sees an old rivalry – French music versus Italian...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2013
Hugo Wolf began his D minor Quartet in 1878; it was to occupy him for six years. Aged 18, he...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 09/2013
This near-complete set of Weinberg’s violin-and-piano works fills a significant gap in his discography (I say near-complete, because the two...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2013
In two quite different ways this is something of an assemblage. To an extent that was not untypical of the...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2013
Period-instrument versions of Schubert’s piano trios are still relatively thin on the ground, so any new one is worth careful...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2013
These performances exhibit that feeling of spontaneous enjoyment which animated Ibragimova and Tiberghien’s live Beethoven set from the Wigmore Hall...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 09/2013
I had more than a few misgivings about the recent version of Souvenir de Florence from Sarah Nemtanu and friends....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2013
While this is a disc of fairly central repertoire, it is also one of uncommon distinction in terms of performance....
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2013
Paul Klee’s ‘taking a line for a walk’ has been cited by many composers, though the result invariably underlines the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2013
In an era when many French composers produced Italianate sonatas, Leclair wrote with the particular authority he gained from having...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 09/2013
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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