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...
It is difficult to imagine a more impressive location for these four substantial organ works by Canadian composers of the...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2020
I doubt if the teacher who once banned the 23-year-old me from playing Schubert’s last piano sonata because she thought...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2020
The Norwegian Svein Hundsnes (b1951) has composed three symphonies, concertos, two string quartets and several other works, but until now...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2020
In an absorbing booklet essay, Peter Hill encourages us to take seriously Beethoven’s modest output for piano duet as a...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2020
Julien Libeer’s Bach takes full advantage of the modern concert grand’s dynamic and timbral resources while keeping within stylistically acceptable...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2020
Schaghajegh Nosrati (b1989, Bochum, Germany), a new name to me, is one of very few women pianists to have recorded...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2020
Theatre tunes and viol fantasias by Purcell, Matthew Locke and John Blow with a Haydn quartet plonked in the middle...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2020
Mahler’s string-orchestra version of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden Quartet has received quite a lot of attention on records, especially...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2020
Hats off, folks: the completion of the first full recorded cycle of Stanford’s string quartets deserves a moment of acknowledgement....
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2020
Schubert’s music never lies far from the arranger’s pen – whether it be the composer himself, apotheosing songs for his...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2020
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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