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 Haydn completed his Six Quartets, Op 50, in 1787, they triggered a Europe-wide bidding war among music publishers. As...
Reviewed in issue 03/2016
Haydn’s last completed set of quartets, commissioned by Count Joseph Erdödy, share the ‘London’ Symphonies’ combination of popular appeal and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2016
Even as a lapsed clarinettist, it’s difficult to argue much of a case for Bruch’s Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2016
It’s a decade ago now that Trio Wanderer recorded the three standard Brahms piano trios for Harmonia Mundi, in a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2016
Solidly Russian-school and an eminently expressive cellist, Alexander Kniazev is in many ways perfectly suited to the Romanticism of Brahms’s...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2016
Two brand-new Beethoven cycles from two major violinists, born little more than a year apart. Tasmin Little has a long-standing...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2016
As Decca is somewhat shy about letting on exactly who the sisters Sarah and Deborah Nemtanu are (at least in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2016
Leila Schayegh is not yet among the most familiar names in the Baroque violin world, perhaps because the sonata recordings...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2016
A dog, we’re told, is not just for Christmas nor, in a great year, is Vienna’s New Year’s Day concert...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2016
Zemlinsky wrote neither a Chamber Symphony nor a song-cycle entitled Sieben Lieder von Nacht und Traum, and the works recorded...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2016
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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