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...
'At the beginning one does not expect much from this piece completed under the tutelage of Nikolay Myaskovsky on November 20, 1928;...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2017
For all its fearsome reputation, whether technically or conceptually, Ives’s Concord Sonata has built a sizeable discography such that any addition...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2017
These three highly contrasted string trios, written at roughly 10-year intervals between 1924 and 1946, almost chart the course of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2017
Just a month after the Takács and Laurence Power impressed with their Dvořák Op 97 Quintet comes this one from the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2017
Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma’s recording of Brahms’s Piano Quartets – winner of Gramophone’s 1991 Chamber Music Award – was made with...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2017
The Oliver Schnyder Trio sprint through the opening movement of Beethoven’s Op 1 No 1, outpacing both the Florestan Trio and the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2017
I’d looked forward to this disc. Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver are both engaging and extremely accomplished artists, and this release,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2017
The brisk, march-like tread; the bracing swing of the melody: you might already know Vaughan Williams’s ‘The Vagabond’, but you...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016
With two highly contrasting album releases already under her belt this year (the premiere recording of Sean Hickey’s recorder concerto The...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2017
Hands up all those wondering whether a recording devoted entirely to fugues may have more than a whiff of scholarly seriousness...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2017
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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