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...
Christopher Trapani is one of America’s musical prospects. Still in his thirties (just about), Trapani has studied at IRCAM, the...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 07/2019
Prokofiev concerto couplings are two a penny these days yet Franziska Pietsch caused something of a stir with her recent...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 07/2019
Saint-Saëns was barely out of his teens when he wrote his only Piano Quintet (1855) – an attractive work, even...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2019
It is still well within living memory that Janáček’s two string quartets gave up their cult status to become pillars...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2019
As his introductory remarks make plain, Roman Mints has been an advocate for Hindemith from the outset of his career....
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2019
The association of Pavel Haas, Hans Krása and Viktor Ullman – all born in either 1898 or 1899 and perishing...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2019
Whatever one makes of the title, ‘The Yiddish Cabaret’ is an enjoyable if rather lopsided concept, with the main work...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2019
Lisa Friend and Rohan de Silva’s new recital contains only one work – Fauré’s Op 79 Fantaisie – that was...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2019
Bengt Forsberg has always been a great champion of the underdog and he has gathered around him a quartet of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2019
The Delphi Piano Trio are a prize-winning ensemble from North America for whom ‘food and friendship … are at the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2019
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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