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...
Did you know that for the entire era of 78rpm shellac discs (that’s to say from the late 1890s to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2020
On the evidence of this disc, the violin sonata is alive and kicking in 21st-century America. The form has a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2020
'The Beauty of 17th Century Violin Music’ is Lina Tur Bonet’s subtitle for this new release with her ensemble Musica...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2020
If you’re the sort who likes to know exactly what’s going on, you may well find this album frustrating. What...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2020
Why did the string trio of violin, viola and cello never really catch on as a genre? Mozart, having written...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2020
Christoph Eschenbach and the Thymos Quartet had me smiling from the very first bars of Schubert’s Trout Quintet. How affectionately...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2020
Old-school musicologists may scoff but these exceptionally melodic sonatas are now among the most frequently played of their kind. Not...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2020
The arresting output of Naomi Pinnock (b1979) has not received much exposure in the UK (the Huddersfield Festival excepted), so...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2020
How many student cellists have fallen in love, despite themselves, with the studies of Alfredo Piatti? It’s not that they’re...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2020
Based at the University of Huddersfield, the Australian composer Liza Lim is one of a growing number of contemporary composers...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2020
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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