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...
There is no particular stylistic distinction between Purcell’s two sets of trio sonatas, despite the fact that one (published in...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2011
Another month, another Mendelssohn trios disc. This new one from the Hamlet Trio, a group just four years old, boasts...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2015
Only a fraction of Koechlin’s immense output is available on disc, so Stefan Schilli’s survey of his chamber works for...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2015
Javier Perianes here champions two chamber works by composers who hailed from Andalusia, as indeed does he. Perianes has shown...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2015
This first ‘period’ recording of Bruckner’s String Quintet may overturn some preconceptions. When writing it in 1879, the composer was...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2015
Decca needs to sell copies, of course. Just don’t be deceived by the disc’s title and the coyly titillating cover....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2015
As this performance has been available unofficially for some time, collectors may already know that ‘Kna’, the legendary dinosaur of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2015
Evgeny Nikitin is an estimable Wagnerian but is perhaps best known for a performance that never happened. He was cast...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2015
Opera houses are on a hiding to nothing when staging Verdi’s Aida. Audiences crave the sort of spectacle usually reserved...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2015
The Strauss anniversary year might have offered a fair number of performances to keep FroSch-fanciers happy, but not much of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley 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...
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