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 musical genius of France is something like fantasy in sensibility’, said Debussy, and if it’s still hard to swallow...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2017
As David Lang indicates in his warmly opinionated booklet recollections, Tom Johnson (b1939) is best known as an insightful and...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2017
These performances of Brahms’s clarinet sonatas have a feeling of spontaneity that suggests involved, intimate conversation. Shirley Brill and Jonathan Aner...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2017
Period instruments are to the fore here, an anonymous Italian violin from 1690 (the Gaulard bow dates from 1820), and...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2017
The German viola da gambist Johanna Rose has already appeared on a fair few recordings, several of which have been...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2017
Is it a sign of age or are trumpeters getting younger these days? By the time she was signed last...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017
It’s a nice disc that can make evident something you may have known about but never quite appreciated for yourself. In...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2017
If memory serves, Martyn Brabbins was the last to pair both these masterworks on a single disc (with the BBC Scottish SO...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2017
When it comes to Walton’s Viola Concerto, surely the finest and most original of his string concertos, perhaps Markus Poschner’s Bamberg opening...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2017
If you ever doubted that, beneath his steely gaze, Vladimir Jurowski has a keen sense of humour, skip immediately to...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017
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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