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...
I’ll admit straightaway that it’s a relief not to see the words ‘Vol 1’ anywhere on this release. Not that...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2015
If you haven’t previously encountered Quatuor Terpsycordes, they’re a Geneva-based period-instrument group who formed in 1997; this is their second...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015
The Canadian pianist Hélène Mercier has appeared in these pages on and off for more than 20 years, always in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2015
The latest addition to the slowly growing Albéric Magnard discography presents us with an unusual if striking coupling. French violinist...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2015
There remains at least one Korngold masterpiece awaiting definitive, rehabilitative advocacy (the Symphonic Serenade of 1948), despite which the composer...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2015
The Fitelberg you may have heard of is Grzegorz, also a composer but better-known as conductor and transcriber of Szymanowski,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2015
Context is the principal factor that links these two programmes, with Dvořák as the common linchpin: an overwhelming musical presence...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2015
It’s a bold musician who dares to duet with Alisa Weilerstein. So much is out of the question: complacency, clichés,...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 11/2015
Let’s start in the middle: Matthew Hindson’s piece is fun, kicking off with a lusty ‘one, a-two, a-one-two-three-four!’ which leads...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2015
This is a puzzling issue in some respects, as well as an unsatisfactory one. In essence, it’s an old-fashioned disc...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2015
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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