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...
These two works are, as per the cover legend, ‘Quartets Nos 15’ but apart from this they are perhaps an...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2019
Naturally, the big personality here is Barenboim. Not Daniel but Michael Barenboim, his violinist son, himself an estimable soloist in...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2019
Julian Steckel digs into the first chord of Kodály’s Solo Sonata (1914) with a gruff flourish, and from there his...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2019
Perhaps surprisingly, this chunky four CD set from Il Rossignolo stands as the very first complete recording of all Handel’s...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2019
In another life Marc-André Hamelin might have made a great political agitator, or even an evangelist. He has an unbeatable...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2019
Pieter Wispelwey’s multi-album mission to record all of Brahms’s and Schubert’s duos – not just the ones for cello –...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2019
A well-spaced recording from the chamber music hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus places the Ébène players in the traditional layout,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019
There are some half-dozen accounts of Amy Beach’s 1938 Trio (in A minor, not specified on the disc) currently available...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019
Polystylism was until quite recently a backhanded compliment thrown at Schnittke, and yet the presence of the Third Quartet is...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019
In releasing films of significant recent concerts in toto on their own label, the LSO evidently have a marketing plan...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill 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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