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...
Johann Christoph Bach, the cousin of Johann Sebastian’s father, Ambrosius, has the reputation of being a musician’s composer, something of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2011
Eileen Joyce (1912‑91) was an astonishing Australian child prodigy who was born in a tent, grew up in squalor and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:
Given a free choice of concerto, anyone who opts for Saint-Saëns’s Fifth for the finals of a major competition is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2011
For her second recorded tribute to the Liszt year Idil Biret offers a richly inclusive programme ranging from the Etude...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2011
‘I would argue that he was the greatest of the Couperins’, writes harpsichordist Richard Egarr of Louis (c1626-1661), the uncle...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 12/2011
Graduates in visual arts and literature respectively, Natascia and Raffaella Gazzana convey no mean musical chemistry in a recital that...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 12/2011
Strauss’s Piano Quartet in C minor is not among his more celebrated early works, even though it won first prize...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2011
Purcell published his collection of a dozen trio sonatas in 1683, and in the preface remarked that he ‘faithfully endeavour’d...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2011
Ubiquitous as Piazzolla’s music may have become, its presentation constantly evolves, from his original or officially sanctioned instrumentations for bandoneón-led...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2011
Both of Mendelssohn’s splendidly assured cello sonatas and the Variations concertantes were composed for his brother Paul to play, and...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2011
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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