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...
First, a declaration of interest. Like anyone who learnt the cello through the ABRSM’s exams, the miniatures of WH Squire...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW16
This is the second time this year that Ludomir Różicki has featured in Gramophone – a composer highly regarded in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16
This is the hardest sort of disc to write about: good, thoroughly musical playing, yet without the enlivening, illuminating touch...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW16
North German critics with a humour bypass had taken Haydn to task for ‘the odd mix of the comic and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW16
‘It would be hard to find a more vivid demonstration of the variety of French music-making in the last quarter...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16
Ole Buck (b 1945) is one of the only composers to have emerged from Denmark’s 20th-century search for ‘new simplicity’...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW16
Heinrich von Herzogenberg dedicated the three quartets of his Op 42 (1884) to Brahms, his friend and musical idol. Hearing...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16
Shortly after Boulez’s death, Richard Barrett published a brief ‘Boulez est mort’ article online. While for many the French composer...
Reviewed in issue AW16
Bach’s output abounds with instances of his revisiting older works to arrange them for different forces, so there’s an extent...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW16
The fact that so very few recordings exist of Albinoni’s Op 1 Trio Sonatas feels like a strange quirk of...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW16
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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