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...
Late in life, Haydn reportedly expressed the wish that his canon of string quartets should be considered to have begun...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2020
Their first commercial release finds the Amatis Trio tackling this not inconsiderable programme for the medium by two gifted adolescents...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2020
Tomás Bretón trained as a violinist at the Conservatoire in Madrid during the 1860s and spent a brief but formative...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2020
I’ve said before that I don’t think James Ehnes is capable of making an unmusical sound, and the previous instalments...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020
For this new recording of Beethoven’s music for cello and keyboard, Nicolas Altstaedt plays on a gut-strung Guadagnini cello from...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020
I have often wondered why the music of Amy Beach is not more loudly acclaimed. As part of a late...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 07/2020
The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in 1917 to recognise excellence in journalism, arts and letters. It wasn’t until 1944...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2020
Weinberg’s works for wind instruments have been less well served on disc than those for strings. His three works for...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020
Make sure you aren’t holding a cup of tea when you put this disc on. The opening chord is the...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2020
It may seem strange that Il Giardino Armonico, founded as long ago as 1985 as one of the very first...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2020
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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