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 New York-based string quartet Brooklyn Rider have featured Philip Glass as part of their eclectic repertoire since their formation...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2018
These performances by the Quatuor Danel are deftly poised on a knife’s edge between sensuousness and rigour, as the most...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018
‘I always have the feeling that people don’t admire this piece enough’, said Johannes Brahms of Dvořák’s String Sextet. I’ll...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2018
The late Joan Chissell, reviewing Jacqueline du Pré and Daniel Barenboim’s recording of the two Brahms sonatas (EMI, 12/68), said...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018
I didn’t think they still made discs like this – three of the best-loved Romantic string quartets, grouped together for...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2018
The Rautio Piano Trio played Mozart on period instruments for their Resonus debut (9/16). Here, in a programme of Beethoven,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018
In his booklet note Ottavio Dantone pays the usual tributes to the awesome compositional achievement of The Art of Fugue...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2018
Adès’s first string quartet, Arcadiana (1994), was premiered a year before Powder Her Face. That this is its sixth recording...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 03/2018
In the moments before pressing play on any new recording from Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the only thing you can be absolutely...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2018
I wonder if Piotr Anderszewski has it in mind to record all of Mozart’s major piano concertos. This is his...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2018
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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