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...
This is not the first time that the works of both husband and wife have appeared together on the same...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2020
It’s not just Yuja Wang whose encores threaten to steal the show. Christoph Croisé and Alexander Panfilov’s ‘Russian Album’ is...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2020
A new CD from Michael Collins is like walking into a three-star Michelin restaurant: you don’t know exactly what’s on...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2020
When Bruce Haynes proclaimed ‘the end of early music’ in the title of his book from 2007, he did not...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2020
Having released editions of Cage and Feldman, Mode is now releasing the complete works of the Romanian spectralist Horațiu Rădulescu...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 02/2020
Johann Joachim Quantz cuts an intriguing figure on the contemporary visibility front. On the one hand, he was renowned in...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2020
‘This sweeping lyricism … fundamental to Gál’s style’ is annotator Richard Marcus’s description of the opening melody of the Suite...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2020
All three sonatas on this typically enterprising Lyrita anthology date from the years 1936 to 1941 – an especially fecund...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2020
The black-and-white publicity photos in the CD booklet show two quite severe-looking musicians (the pianist seems to be glowering), a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2020
It’s perhaps not surprising that Beethoven’s string quintets feature less highly in his output than do similar works by Mozart...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2020
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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