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...
Through his early studies with Josef Polnauer, a member of the Schoenberg circle, Friedrich Cerha is one of the few...
Reviewed in issue 09/2016
A lightning-flash of piano semiquavers, the violin pulls itself defiantly up to its full height, and Georgy Catoire’s First Violin...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2016
Trattenimenti armonici da camera (Bologna, 1695) was the first publication by Francisco José de Castro, an Andalusian Jesuit probably trained...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2016
A note in the booklet by these Belgian artists – still in their twenties – says that their duo partnership...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 09/2016
In her booklet-notes, violinist Miranda Cuckson claims a personal connection to this all-Slavic cocktail: ancestors of her Viennese grandfather apparently...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 09/2016
It says something when the most familiar piece on a disc is Andrzej Panufnik’s Violin Concerto. In fact these four...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2016
During the 17th and 18th centuries, Vienna’s Habsburg Court was one of the foremost political and cultural centres in Europe....
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2016
Sakari Oramo and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra give us a finely disciplined Frank Bridge Variations of pungent character, fiery snap...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2016
Here’s an amiable disc exploring the light end of contemporary clarinet composition in works written especially for soloist Emma Johnson....
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2016
It wouldn’t do to allow one’s imagination to stray too far over the cover artwork to this 25th-anniversary studio recording...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2016
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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