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...
Now that Martha Argerich has all but abandoned the recording studio (and the solo recital platform) for chamber projects with...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2012
Jakob Ullmann writes music that’s hardly there. Born 1958 in Freiberg, residual traces of Nono, Lachenmann and Cage meander around...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2012
Schubert’s Rosamunde and Death and the Maiden create one of the starkest pairings of string quartets, displaying startling contrasts and...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2012
As this is the first in the Mandelring Quartet’s complete cycle of Mendelssohn’s string quartets, plain chronological order may well...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2012
Ravel, it seems, made a careful study of the piano trios of Saint-Saëns before embarking on his own in 1914....
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2012
In the early 1990s there was a rash of discs of little-known Baroque instrumental music issued on mainstream labels, either...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2012
The billing might initially suggest a radical take on Haydn’s lofty Passion meditations. What we get, though, is a modest...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2012
Slender tone, soft, delicate and withdrawn greets you at the start of Schumann’s First Quartet, the Introduzione played Andante espressivo...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2012
What a glorious work the First Piano Quartet is, here given a reading that abounds in warmth and geniality. Sample...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2012
Dvořák’s four piano trios span his earlier musical life, part of a composing career that was rich in melodic and...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2012
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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