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...
The Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja doesn’t toe the line. Her performances of core repertoire are emotionally supercharged: some listeners balk...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 12/2015
Briefly subverting ‘What shall we do with the drunken sailor?’ into a tango has to be a Good Thing in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2015
Here are the big names of 20th-century American music from an unfamiliar angle, and it’s all wonderfully played. Barber’s early...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2015
A second ‘first’ recording of Shostakovich’s unfinished Violin Sonata of 1945? The explanation is that Sasha Rozhdestvensky and Jeremy Menuhin...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2015
Do you want a recording of Schubert’s miraculous chamber swansong with a double bass taking the second cello part? That’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2015
The first volume of Henk Guittart and his Gruppo Montebello’s series exploring the milieu surrounding Arnold Schoenberg’s Verein für musikalische...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2015
University students may still snigger at his name (at least in the UK), but to listen to Samuel Scheidt’s Ludici...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2015
Readers may disagree, but I can’t supress the vague feeling on listening to this disc that Kaija Saariaho might just...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2015
The name’s Reicha, not Reich. Anton Reicha was born Antonín Rejcha in Prague, an exact contemporary of Beethoven, whom he...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2015
There’s a big picture of Lars Vogt just inside the booklet. He’s not actually playing, but this disc immortalises a...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2015
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...
If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.