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...
This highly accomplished group, based in New York, takes its name from the legendary pianist Mieczysław Horszowski (1892-1993). Pianist Rieko...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2015
It makes an ideal coupling to have Brahms’s String Sextets, both charming works, on a single disc. It is striking...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2015
Instruments are carefully balanced, sound is good. But this recording, originally in SACD format, would audibly have been a lot...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2015
The oom pah figuration that launches Bartók’s Suite, Op 4 – which he arranged for two pianos in 1941 from...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015
For their third Steinway & Sons release, the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo dedicate their uncanny ensemble prowess and canny...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2015
A cynic might look at Roberto Alagna’s new disc, ‘My Life is an Opera’, and think, ‘At least he admits...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2015
A different branch of the record industry might have called this recital by the septuagenarian baritone ‘Leo Nucci unplugged’. For...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2015
Glossa’s series investigating the careers of major Italian Baroque singers continues with an examination of the Neapolitan castrato Domenico Gizzi...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015
Piotr Beczała has built up such good will amid potentially troublesome Metropolitan Opera productions – from the Las Vegas Rigoletto...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2015
The first release on disc of this 1961 broadcast is a potent reminder of the strengths (and quirks) of Georg...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman 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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