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...
When Lars Vogt’s recordings of Beethoven’s First and Second Piano Concertos with Simon Rattle and the CBSO were released in...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2017
For the third instalment in their ‘Concerti’ series, the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo bring together three works, the first two written...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2017
Many years ago my friend and Gramophone colleague Andrew Achenbach suggested a ploy for tracking me down should I ever...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2017
This is an outstanding recording, by an all-Polish team, of three of Szymanowski’s most sumptuously beautiful works. The two completed...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2017
Time was when Howard Skempton was considered primarily as a master of the miniature, notably those for piano and accordion....
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2017
The hotbed of creativity that surrounded Liszt in Weimar between 1848 and 1861 is difficult to imagine today. Embarking on...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2017
Diaghilev’s initial reaction to Daphnis et Chloé, documented in Jean-François Monnard’s excellent booklet-note, was ‘Ravel, it is a masterpiece, but...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2017
The Jasper Quartet select seven pieces written since 2005 for their third Sono Luminus CD. Five begin with a pulse...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2017
The newest recording from ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble) contains a bounty of appealing recent works. Four are by ensemble...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2017
The Brooklyn Youth Chorus introduced ‘Black Mountain Songs’ during the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival in 2014. Along...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2017
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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