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...
Nono’s late style brings music to the verge of silence. The dynamic strays above pianissimo only occasionally. Pitch material is...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 02/2021
‘Glorious and grand, magnificent and sublime’, ran a contemporary verdict on Mozart’s Gran Partita, music that both crowns and transcends...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2021
‘Zwischen den Sternen’ – ‘Between the stars’ – are the opening words of one of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2021
Whereas Haydn’s earlier quartets were designed for players and a small group of connoisseurs, his Opp 71 and 74 were...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2021
It’s been said before but it’s worth restating: Beethoven described both of the works on this album as sonatas for...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021
Beethoven’s output of chamber music foregrounding the flute is early and not extensive, so flautists understandably appropriate arrangements of works...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2021
A welcome release from The Gould Piano Trio, now into its third decade, whose repertoire stretches right across this medium....
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2021
Hard as it may be in 2021 to read past the sticky paternalism of Richard Dehmel’s best-known poem, early 20th-century...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2021
There can have been no stranger occasion in the New Year’s Concert’s 80-year history than this: the Vienna Philharmonic playing...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2021
This superbly played and vividly engineered release, featuring works from three continents and four different centuries, is the debut album...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2021
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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