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...
Composed in 1933, Moeran’s Songs of Springtime is a superb example of the kind of unaccompanied secular choral writing at...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2011
I know that musicians must do everything they can to glorify their careers, but there is something refreshing about the...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2011
Sandrine Piau brings her familiar limpid tone, refined phrasing and easy, silvery top notes to this eclectic programme, built around...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2011
Les nuits d’été (the definite article is missing throughout Somm’s eccentric presentation) may be the only work by Berlioz that...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2011
If you notice something, it’s already too much, Claudio Abbado once remarked to Rob Cowan, and there’s a lot to...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2011
Something mildly fruity and soft-edged about the piano timbre in Jos van Immerseel’s and Claire Chevallier’s performance of Poulenc’s Two-Piano...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2011
The experience of listening to Julia Fischer’s latest CD was tinged with sadness, cast as it was in the shadow...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2011
Adjacent numerically, these two symphonies were composed some years apart (No 54, 1774; No 53, c1777‑79). And, while L’impériale has...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2011
Gidon Kremer has recorded the Tchaikovsky Trio before – a patched live affair with Argerich and Maisky, where he had...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2011
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. I’ve said...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 08/2011
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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