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...
This engaging disc finds Lionel Cottet, the Swiss-born principal cellist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, teaming up with the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017
Robert Plane is always inquiring as to repertoire and his new disc surveys almost six decades of Hungarian music, beginning with...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2017
A recital of lollipops and transcriptions by a humorously named clarinet trio: you might think you know what to expect from...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2017
‘Aus kaiserliche Zeit – From Imperial Vienna’ implies a concept, juxtaposing the music of three composers of different generations and unearthing...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2017
If it’s too easy to discuss Schoenberg’s Fourth Quartet in terms of Haydn with wrong notes, the Gringolts nonetheless helpfully...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2017
Alongside Liza Lim, almost her exact contemporary, composer Cat Hope (b1966) has emerged as one of Australia’s most exciting and...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2017
This is a delightful, intelligently programmed disc, charting the development of a composer known more as a famous composer’s daughter (and another’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2017
For all that Petr Eben – former president of the Prague Spring Festival – was perhaps the most highly respected composer in...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 10/2017
The pairing of the Takács Quartet and viola player Lawrence Power has already proved a winning one in Brahms and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017
Jozef Lupták and Ivo Varbanov’s recording of the E minor First Sonata begins well. They step steadily, almost stealthily, through the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton 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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