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...
On first hearing, this new set of Brahms violin sonatas by Rachel Kolly and Christian Chamorel makes a curious impression:...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2024
Piano trios have cause to be grateful that Brahms’s loyal friend Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903) did such a thoroughly professional job...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2024
The namesake of France’s Quatuor Agate is an ornamental gemstone. ‘Agate’ also alludes to the group’s affinity for Brahms, whose...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 04/2024
Rob Cowan recently remarked that Casals and Horszowski make Brahms’s Second Cello Sonata ‘sound truly the Eroica of cello sonatas’...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 04/2024
My colleague Andrew Farach-Colton ended his review of the previous volume, of the Pastoral and the Piano Trio Op 1...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024
For such a starry orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic has a pretty threadbare Rachmaninov catalogue. Their only symphony cycle was with...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024
Across the years the New Year’s Day concert from Vienna’s Musikverein has been conducted by the crème de la crème...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024
Edmund Finnis describes his Hymn (after Byrd) – an arrangement for string orchestra of the fourth movement of his First...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
Two world premieres from Eugène Ysaÿe might seem like a bonanza, but that’s what we have here: a full-scale violin...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2024
There are lovely moments in Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen’s two piano concertos. The First (1847 48), Jeremy Nicholas tells us...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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