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...
Performers’ interest in the music of Georg Muffat has always centred on his Armonico tributo of 1682, in which he...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2016
The Cecilia Quartet came to international attention when they won the 2010 Banff Quartet Competition. These days they combine an...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2016
Period-instrument recordings of Schumann’s chamber masterpiece didn’t much impress me when I surveyed them for a Gramophone Collection (12/07). This...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2016
Niche is the word. Joyce Griggs gives us 50 minutes’ worth of Percy Grainger’s transcriptions and arrangements for saxophone ensemble...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2016
The Carducci Quartet’s impressive debut recording on Naxos featured the first four of Philip Glass’s string quartets (9/10). This release...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2016
Dvořák’s masterly piano quartets find the augmented London Bridge Trio (Gary Pomeroy takes the viola line) offering sensitive, well-integrated readings...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2016
The playing of Richard Mühlfeld coaxed Johannes Brahms out of retirement, into a glorious Indian summer yielding such works as...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2016
When Pieter Wispelwey points out that by playing neither the violin, viola, flute or arpeggione he’s missing out on no...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2016
A very useful double-pack, this, which, although not always absolutely top-of-the-league performance-wise, is certainly good enough to convey the essence...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2016
Christian Heindl muses, in his booklet note, that Tchaikovsky’s songs might have achieved greater international fame if the composer had...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2016
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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