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...
Véronique Gens’s new album is an important issue on several fronts. First and foremost, it is arguably the most...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2016
No explanation is offered in the booklet for the belated release of these recordings from the early 1990s and perhaps...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2016
The title of this disc is ‘Motets pour une princesse’. The lady in question was Marie de Lorraine, the Duchesse...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2016
For her third Somm recording, Valerie Tryon turns to France, doubtless recalling her early studies in Paris with Jacques Février....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2016
Mozart’s Concerto for three pianos, K242, was composed in 1776 for the Countess Lodron and her two daughters, and later...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2016
Having recorded the Chopin Etudes aged just 18 (10/13), what could be more natural than the Schumann Concerto at 20?...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2016
When it comes to Baroque violin concertos, Vivaldi’s tend to get the lion’s share of the limelight in comparison to...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2016
This was my first encounter with the music of Karl Weigl (1881-1949). I fear it may also be my last....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016
Hugo Reyne presents this disc very much in terms of his life with Vivaldi’s recorder concertos, from copying a tune...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2016
This disc marks a double celebration: 40 years since the foundation of the Orchestre National de Lille and a half-century...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2016
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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