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...
In conversation with the New York Times in 2008, Alan Gilbert remarked that just ‘because you can give a title...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2019
Ravel’s music for violin and piano is easily overlooked as a facet of his output but stretches over almost his...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2019
The Van Kuijk’s second disc of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets builds on their growing reputation as one of the foremost young...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2019
I think I have found a new friend. Immediately appealing, charming and, if not greatly original in thought or language,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2018
Poor Josef Labor (1842-1924), blind from the age of three, known to us now almost entirely through his use to...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2019
Chopin discs come and go, with all the usual titles making claims to our attention. Here, for once, is a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019
Beethoven presented his Septet to the Viennese public in April 1800 as part of a marathon concert that also included...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2019
This selection of six relatively small-scale chamber pieces by Julian Anderson takes in works written between 1987 and 2015; and...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2019
The names here are the ones that turn up on most anthologies of early 17th-century Italian string music, but what...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2019
These overtures and preludes were recorded live in the Eberbach Abbey basilica, whose resonant acoustic magnifies the unusually soft-grained character...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2019
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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