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 first five-disc set of Peter Kofler’s projected complete Bach organ works series claims to make use of an innovative...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2020
For all the myriad appeal of the six French Suites and miscellaneous transcriptions of Alexandra Papastefanou’s new two-disc First Hand...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020
The Miró Quartet began their Beethoven cycle in 2004 with Op 18. I sat in on one of those recording...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020
Though Richard Boothby writes in the booklet notes that this ‘isn’t an anniversary’ of their first recording, ‘In nomine’ (Amon...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2020
DG follows its release of Weinberg symphonies (6/19) with one of chamber music featuring members of Kremerata Baltica. Works for...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020
Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio is, by any standards, one of the peaks of the repertoire; given the difficulties balancing the three...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020
Only one of the players on this official 50th-anniversary recording was part of the Fitzwilliam Quartet that recorded the group’s...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020
The booklet is an oddity, describing the wonderful Notturno, D897, as ‘a great rarity’. Presumbly that’s a rarity along the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2020
Twentieth-century Russia left cellists spoilt for choice: a player who wants to record a sonata disc can choose from bona...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project are quietly building a most impressive library of contemporary American composition. For their latest release,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020
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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