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...
This is a thoroughly imaginative pairing of John Cage and Henry Cowell, especially coming after Cowell’s impressive showing as Composer...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 01/2016
Korean-born Sunwook Kim came to prominence in 2006 at the age of 18, when he won the Leeds International Competition....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2016
What a good title for this selection of famous 19th-century encores. The ‘Lady Harmsworth’ in question is a 1703 masterpiece...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016
As far as Armenians are concerned, music is inextricably bound up with loss. Every year, they gather to pay respects...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 01/2016
Two discs from two Danish ensembles coincide to chart the history of the piano trio in the country from its...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2016
Isidora Žebeljan (b1967) grew up in a rural part of Serbia near the Carpathian mountains, where folk music criss-crossed between...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 01/2016
Pamela Thorby’s new two-disc set looks at first glance pretty hardcore: one disc of sonatas with continuo and a second...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2016
He was unfashionable before anyone knew who he was. As Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen were advancing their arguments about...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2016
Whether one can hear shades of Schumann’s nervous collapse within his D minor Violin Sonata is very much up for...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2016
Debate often rages here at Gramophone Towers: do piano duets get reviewed in the Instrumental or Chamber sections of the...
Reviewed by David Threasher 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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