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 guitar is a two-headed beast. In its civilised, classical form it is the instrument of the concert hall. Yet...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2019
To borrow from the psychologist James J Gibson, our eyes are on ‘the head on the shoulders of a body...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2019
It’s an attractive idea: a programme of chamber music by four mutual friends, Robert and Clara Schumann and Fanny and...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2019
In 1739 a Frenchman, Charles de Brosses, wrote from Venice: ‘Here they have a form of music that we know...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2019
Now in his early sixties, Nicholas Simpson studied composition during the 1980s with John Tavener at Trinity College, London. However,...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2019
It’s a mistake to consider Per Nørgård a dogmatic composer and this release proves it in style, placing some of...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2019
Donnacha Dennehy’s arrival as a composer in the late 1990s heralded what was dubbed the new Irish classical. Often performed...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 10/2019
Le Consort’s decision to record these six sonatas by Jean-François Dandrieu, an obscure 18th-century French composer best known for his...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2019
The Vienna Piano Trio already have a live recording of Ravel’s masterpiece in their portfolio (also for MDG, from 2011)....
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2019
The canon is dead, we’re told. And yet week in, week out, they keep coming: new recordings of supposed warhorses...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2019
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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