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...
Les Surprises was co-founded by Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas in 2010. In what has become a French tradition, the group...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2016
At his death, Monteverdi left us a small, precious handful of operas. Even allowing for those lost, his output in...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2016
You only have to compare the titles of these two recordings to realise what an inspired idea it was to...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2016
‘Les voyages de l’Amour’ takes its name from a 1736 opéra-ballet by Boismortier. Looking at the instrumentation for that work,...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 07/2016
A pardessus recital is a rarity, indeed! Fine treble viol plays are reasonably thick on the ground these days but...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 07/2016
Enescu’s Légende gives its title to this album, and it sets the mood. It’s too serious to count as a...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2016
Hot on the heels of the astonishing Leonidas Kavakos and his unfashionable programme of violin encores (Decca, 6/16) comes a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016
David Matthews’s Piano Quintet is modest both in dimensions and in ambitions: the titles of its four movements – Praeludio,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2016
Dabringhaus und Grimm served Hindemith’s sonatas well in the mid-1990s with a seven-volume survey of 31 of them by Ensemble...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2016
His Symphony No 3 propelled him to chart-topping stardom, thanks to its beatific, anaesthetising simplicity. Now whenever Henryk Górecki gets...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 07/2016
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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