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...
These musicians of rare versatility perform regularly as a duo. Bringing this successful partnership so tangibly into the listening room...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2013
A mixed programme of Messiaen and Saariaho piano and chamber music may present something of a shelving quandary. But the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2013
After their impressive traversal of the Górecki quartets (6/11), the Royal Quartet return with two further seminal Polish figures. Penderecki’s...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 05/2013
Holmboe came late to the guitar but, as was the case with the accordion and recorder, once one piece was...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2013
Best known for his many and varied scores for stage and screen, Jonathan Goldstein brings a more personal perspective to...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 05/2013
A four-CD set of Franck’s chamber music might come as surprise when the only works to have achieved the status...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2013
Michael Finnissy’s programme notes have a tendency to make the ache of writing music sound like a walk in the...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 05/2013
Like some mid-20th century German orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra has a string quartet drawn from its principal players...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue:
Not even reference books on French Baroque music have much to say about François Chauvon. About all we know of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2013
Chausson’s premature death in 1899 in a cycling accident left his String Quartet unfinished. Two movements were complete, with a...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2013
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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