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...
Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Have you ever read such a fabulous name? And with fabulous playing to match, it’s a...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2020
Augusta Read Thomas’s association with Nimbus has been crucial to expanding her recorded profile, and this eighth release provides an...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2020
The Emerson Quartet mark their debut on Pentatone after a long association with DG with the three quartets of Schumann....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2020
In the mythic language of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Arod – the name given to Legolas’s horse –...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2020
I didn’t expect to begin this review with the single-movement Sonatensatz – and it’s true, you’re not likely to buy...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2020
When he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the composer Giacinto Scelsi nursed himself back to health by playing a...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 12/2020
He may long ago have become a footnote in musical history but Robert Fuchs (1847-1927) was more than the able...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2020
Anyone who loves Brahms even a little bit will know what wonderful roles he gave to the horn, not least...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2020
This sequel delivers entirely wonderful playing from Ensemble Marsyas. Much of what Lindsay Kemp found excellent about the first instalment...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2020
Martyn Brabbins’s Vaughan Williams symphony cycle continues to go from strength to strength with this impressively cogent, self-effacing Fifth, a...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2020
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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