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...
‘Rubinstein Remembered’ was originally broadcast in 1987 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the pianist’s birth. It made its first...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2015
The six film composers represented on ‘Montage’ have between them amassed 72 Oscar nominations and eight wins. ‘But,’ ponders the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2015
There are points in Dana Zemtsov’s performance of Michael Kugel’s Sonata-Poème where her double-stopping is so perfectly tuned, so varied...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2015
The young Polish pianist Magdalena Zuk here offers a beautifully balanced sequence of pieces centring on nine by Szymanowski. Plainly...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2015
Remember recording music from radio broadcasts on to tape cassettes? Here is the digital (and legal) equivalent. It is culled...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2015
Volume 10 continues Jordi Masó’s pilgrimage through Turina’s complete piano music. Less easily exportable than Falla, Albéniz, Granados or the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2015
Scriabin’s 21 mazurkas are a loving and audacious tribute to Chopin. Audacious because, with the exception of Szymanowski (his 20...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2015
Having recorded Schubert’s complete piano music on period instruments, Jan Vermeulen now launches a cycle dedicated to the composer’s abundant...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2015
Even if Prokofiev sonata cycles are no longer rarer than hen’s teeth, Boris Berman’s 1990s Chandos sequence has remained a...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2015
Les Corps Glorieux and La Nativité du Seigneur are Olivier Messiaen’s two major pre-war organ cycles, works that helped clarify...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015
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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