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...
After their splendid Beethoven cycle, Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien turn here to a very different repertoire, demonstrating what a...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: AW/2011
Though Ignace Pleyel may be better known to us as a maker of pianos and music publisher, he was a...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW/2011
“Newly revised and corrected” is how Artaria proudly announced its 1801 edition of these quartets. Exciting? Not for all scholars...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW/2011
Vol 43 of Mode’s Complete Cage Edition is the first in the series to survey Cage’s music for percussion, which,...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: AW/2011
Saint-Saëns, a master of chamber music, considered York Bowen the finest English composer of his generation, yet for so long...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: AW/2011
The Cuarteto Casals have twice before given us discs featuring Spanish music – Arriaga (1/04), Turina and Toldrá (6/07) –...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW/2011
As the apogee of variation sets ripe for instrumental transformation, the Goldbergs rarely seem as absorbingly focused, crafted or quixotic...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW/2011
Ksenija Sidorova here demonstrates the remarkable potential of the accordion, not an instrument generally appreciated in classical circles. It was...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: AW/2011
Pianist Julius Drake spent many years occupied with solo piano repertoire and later achieved renown as one of the world’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW/2011
Francesco Piemontesi (Italian-Swiss, b1983) was awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Fellowship in 2009 and named by the BBC as one of its...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW/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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