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...
Not always Haydn of good cheer. There was an arcane side; and, from his letters to Marianne von Genzinger, a...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 03/2015
The music of the hugely prolific Brazilian pianist, composer and arranger Radamés Gnattali (1906 88) is so fluent and attractive...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2015
The generally vague booklet-notes accompanying this disc contain a revealing quote. Erkoreka’s teacher Michael Finnissy told his student that art...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2015
Here’s an enterprising programme from Quatuor Giardini. The marketplace is quite crowded where Fauré’s First Piano Quartet is concerned. While...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015
Strange engineering dogs these performances. Flanking the piano in the middle are the strings, each at an extreme end; and...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 03/2015
Known by Vincent d’Indy as ‘the soldier musician’ because so much of his music was written during the First World...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2015
This engrossing film illustrates what a richly fulfilling life that of the international concert pianist can be – and also...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2015
Malcolm Smith (1932-2011) was head of the Promotion and Hire Library at Boosey & Hawkes for many years and knew...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 03/2015
In ‘Echoes from an Empire’ (good title), the Jordanian-born London-trained pianist Karim Said (b1988) presents six engagingly diverse examples of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2015
After a brilliant and refined recording success in Albéniz’s Iberia, Kotaro Fukuma moves to a more wintry clime. In his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
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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