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...
Edna Stern should know all about colour: she’s a former pupil of Leon Fleisher and Krystian Zimerman after all. She...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2015
The Escher Quartet continue their Mendelssohn cycle with two highly contrasting works. This young American group respond particularly vividly to...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2015
It’s never an easy ask, playing Janáček’s string quartets. Then playing them well. Then playing them this well. But the...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 10/2015
It might seem a strange idea to pair Reynaldo Hahn’s refined elegance with Szymanowski’s impressionistic, dramatic manner. However, the two...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2015
In a letter to Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Grieg assigned each of these sonatas – the heart of his chamber music –...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2015
It’s a real pleasure to find that Itzhak Perlman, after an absence of some years from the recording studio, has...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2015
That Brett Dean was a professional viola player for well over a decade only makes his writing for strings the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2015
The first sound you hear – the reedy tones of Wu Wei’s sheng smearing itself against Stefan Hussong’s husky accordion...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2015
Although competition among DVDs of chamber music is rarely intense, this new release does have rivals. In 2005 Testament released...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue:
Having already recorded Brahms’s First Sonata, Op 78, Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov complete the set with a performance of...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2015
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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