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...
Another chipping from Shostakovich’s workbench here receives its first recording, in the shape of an Impromptu almost certainly composed for...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2019
Grace Williams isn’t exactly neglected in the concert hall – at least not in Wales, where every orchestral musician, amateur...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019
Shostakovich’s Fifth Quartet is one of his most demanding, certainly in terms of physical, emotional and intellectual stamina, and while...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2019
Leif Ove Andsnes and Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff’s full-throated, richly romantic accounts of the Schumann piano trios came as something...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2019
An international ensemble perform Schubert’s evergreen quintet for piano and strings, and surround it with the ‘Trout Project’ – a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2019
Composed for London’s Hanover Square Rooms, Haydn’s Op 71 Quartets balance a chamber-musical refinement with broad effects calculated to appeal...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2019
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen wrote his first three string quartets in 1959 and his 14th and last in 2013, three years before...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2019
David Fennessy, now in his 40s, has come a long way since playing guitar in rock bands. Born in Ireland,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2019
It’s a violin contest we have to thank for this new duo partnership between longstanding DG artist Rafał Blechacz and...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2019
For decades after it was first given in 1985, the Grawemeyer Award was mostly canonical, honouring composers who most regular...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 05/2019
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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