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...
The musical style of the naturalised Englishman and banker Baron Frédéric Alfred d’Erlanger, born in Paris of a French father...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2020
I have heard Olivier Riehl’s flute-playing live in concert. It was a humid evening in Paris; despite the audience’s sweaty...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2020
I’d heard of the Ruysdael Quartet but hadn’t heard them play until this disc came my way, and now I...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2020
Following their lovely disc of the Op 70 No 2 Trio and their namesake composer’s own arrangement of the Second...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2020
The piano trios of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach were originally published (beginning with Wq89 in 1776) with a cumbersome but...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 10/2020
Immigration is the backdrop to this programme of American piano music, from the ethnic origins of the composers featured and,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2020
Original repertoire for flute, cello and piano is not as extensive as it might be. Arrangements abound, as here with...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2020
Tobias Picker’s Opera Without Words is a brilliantly colourful concerto for orchestra in which the purely instrumental voices are taken...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2020
There is no shortage of recordings of Brahms’s complete sonatas for violin and piano by artists legendary and otherwise. And...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2020
The tuba is often typecast as a supporting player at the bottom of the orchestra or as oom-pah champion in...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2020
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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