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...
Guy Johnston’s cello was built in Rome in 1714 by the Bavarian-born David Tecchler. To commemorate its 300th birthday, the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2017
Italy produced a wealth of fine Romantic instrumental music between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, and some of the names...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2017
The latest ‘Martha Argerich and Friends’ edition is culled from the Lugano Festival Progetto Martha Argerich’s final season in 2016. Whether...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017
This is a delectable programme on paper but, when you come to listen, it can feel a little thin. An...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2017
In these days when in the realm of Baroque repertoire you can’t move for tripping over a period instrument, the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2017
The Novus Quartet’s wiry, glistening tone – like a tightly coiled bundle of fine, luminous filaments – brings to mind the original...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2017
Italian contemporary music has struggled to find renewed focus in recent years, with Orazio Sciortino (b1984) evidently among its leading...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2017
That Colin Riley (b1963) is, in his own words, ‘a composer of no fixed indoctrination’ feels less provocative a statement than...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2017
Antoine Reicha’s reputation has long been hampered by the air of academicism that clings to it. A Czech-born contemporary of Beethoven,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2017
'He had the smallest modicum possible of the phlegmatic, and the maximum of the opposite quality.’ Goethe’s characterisation of the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2017
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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