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 seven works on this terrifically played, imaginatively programmed disc cover over 30 years of John Pickard’s career. They are...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020
Reviewing some 30 recordings of Elgar’s Violin Sonata in E minor for a Gramophone Collection in January 2016, it was...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2020
It’s one thing for a group of musicians to produce a complete chamber works cycle whose separate multifarious-force constituents are...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2020
The second of Beethoven’s Op 70 pair is rather the poor relation among the numbered piano trios, its radiance effaced...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2020
Vyacheslav Artyomov turned 80 this year. His reputation may rest significantly on large-scale orchestral works, such as the Requiem and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020
Fazıl Say describes his 2017 Cello Concerto as an artistic response to the terror attacks in Paris and Istanbul, and...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020
Marketing in overdrive and a concept that has misfired, but don’t let that stop you listening to these fresh and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020
Sarah Willis is hardly the first to put a Cuban spin on classical works. But where, say, the Klazz Brothers’...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020
The idea for this recording came out of a casual conversation between fellow Georgians Lisa Batiashvili and Nikoloz Rachveli about...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020
If I’ve unpacked it right, there are two converging strands to this project: the atmosphere of ‘that fleeting moment between...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020
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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