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...
When Covid-19 hit the US hard in the first months of 2020 and lockdowns began to be imposed in the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2021
There’s an autumnal air to the music on this album, and not just because much of it was written in...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2021
With London, Paris and Dresden already dispatched with style, Berlin is the next stop for Johannes Pramsohler’s plaudit-garnering Cities series....
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2021
Avi Avital, incomparable artist of and advocate for the mandolin, here presents a multifaceted portrait of an instrument ‘at once...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 01/2021
The Swiss composer Stephan Thelen wrote the string quartet Circular Lines for the Kronos Quartet’s project ‘50 for the Future:...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 01/2021
A couple of years ago the Gramophone Awards adopted a category for ‘Concept Album’ – ‘one designed to be heard...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2021
How Mozart must have relished writing the so-called Gran Partita. Its opulent forces gave scope both to his love of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2021
To mark the 25th anniversary of their formation, the German Fauré Quartet turn to Fauré’s own music for their new...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2021
Nottingham is not the only city with a flourishing musical family, as this release by the Paris-born Moreau siblings makes...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2021
No matter how well you know these two life-enhancing works, I strongly suggest you hear them in their alternative garb....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2021
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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