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 Nash Ensemble dig into Dohnányi’s Serenade (1902) with gusto, relishing the music’s myriad felicities. If they don’t quite match...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
‘Don’t forget that my String Quartet was already conceived as four-part counterpoint, whereas Debussy’s Quartet is purely harmonic in design’,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2018
Couperin’s E minor Suite for bass viol and continuo is possibly the most beautiful work for the instrument. We have...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 07/2018
This is the third period-instrument recording of Brahms’s violin sonatas I’ve heard, and by far the most illuminating. I admire...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
It’s 18 months since I reviewed all the available recordings of this wonderful cycle (Collection, 1/17), an experience that has...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2018
Beethoven wrote the Fourth Symphony to unblock problems he was encountering with what we now know as the Fifth. Karajan...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2018
In his memoir Hallelujah Junction (Faber: 2008; 2/09), John Adams pays a glowing tribute to Leila Josefowicz’s tireless advocacy of...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2018
I imagine I am not alone in having first been introduced to the name and music of Bernhard Henrik Crusell...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2018
Arcangelo Corelli is the (unheard) presiding genius behind this sequel to Rinaldo Alessandrini’s chronological survey of 17th-century Italian string music...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2018
Principal clarinet for both the Aarhus and Danish National Symphony orchestras, Mathias Kjøller (b1985) is a soloist in demand, especially...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2018
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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