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 American composer Marc Mellits cut his creative teeth transcribing Steve Reich while absorbing the music of post-minimalists such as...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2017
Volume 3 of the ARC Ensemble’s Music in Exile series profiles Szymon Laks, who moved to Paris from Warsaw in...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2017
The 40-year-old Haydn seems to have conceived his Op 20 quartets as a showcase for his newly won technical and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2017
When Francis Drake set sail in 1577 to circumnavigate the globe, he took with him four violists and sundry other...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2017
‘Frankly no good’: Poulenc’s verdict on his only Violin Sonata was damning, but there’s no reason why we have to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2017
This 1993 recording of Morton Feldman’s cello-and-piano piece Patterns in a Chromatic Field (1981) is a pioneering document, a recording...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2017
This is a comprehensive collection of Fauré’s ‘official’ music for cello and piano – which is to say, it excludes...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2017
The concertos of the Finnish-Swedish clarinettist Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775 1838) come around fairly often; less so his chamber works....
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2017
Hot on the heels of the superb Erato recording with the Capuçon brothers et al comes this energetic account of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2017
‘Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin’ declares the cover of this latest release in Ian Watson and Susanna Ogata’s cycle of...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2017
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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