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...
Light of touch, stylistically assured and brimful of intelligence and wit, Leon McCawley’s second instalment of Haydn sonatas for Somm...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2019
Michel Dalberto’s Beethoven has mellowed since his sparkling early-1980s recordings of the Op 2 and Op 10 trilogies. The music’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2019
Nicholas Walker has been toiling away virtually unnoticed in the Balakirev vineyard for the past few decades. Many will recall...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2019
Surprisingly, this is the first time that Alkan’s Symphony for Solo Piano and Concerto for Solo Piano have appeared together...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2019
There are live recordings and there are live recordings. Some catapult you straight to the event while others leave you...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2019
The disembodied head of Patricia Kopatchinskaja rests next to a violin, its back splintered, its neck missing. Inside the booklet,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2019
On the evidence of this musically engaging programme, violinist Tessa Lark has a canny ability to adjust her approach according...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2019
What a good idea! Looking for practical ways to spread the word about emerging composers, the Berkeley Ensemble revisited the...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2019
Shostakovich’s Second Quartet is remarkable for its sheer insistence. Long stretches of the first movement are sustained at a constant...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2019
Poulenc wasn’t instinctively drawn to the violin sonata: ‘The prima donna violin over arpeggiated piano nauseates me’, he’s reported to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2019
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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