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...
Originally on Ivory Classics, this glorious two-CD album is now lavishly reissued to mark Nadia Reisenberg’s 110th anniversary. A voice...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
Three tips of the hat for this one: first to Cathedral Music for sponsoring the CD and making available again...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2015
This is Boris Giltburg’s first disc since he signed to Naxos. His previous recordings on Orchid, of barnstorming repertoire from...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015
A number of highly cultivated pianists have been drawn to Mussorgsky’s Pictures over the past few years, among them Leif...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015
Writing in her personal and engaging notes, Angela Hewitt tells us that Liszt’s B minor Sonata is ‘quite simply one...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
Costantino Catena has performed the complete piano music of Liszt – a gargantuan task – and his present two-CD album...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
The austerity of presentation as favoured by the Another Timbre label is doubtless intended to place emphasis wholly on the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2015
‘Le rossignol éperdu’ is to Hahn what Lieder ohne Worte is to Mendelssohn and Lyric Pieces to Grieg. It is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2015
From a renowned champion and award-winning interpreter of the north German Baroque repertory, it comes as something of a shock...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2015
William Faulkes (1863-1933), a near contemporary of Elgar and a fine concert organist in his own right, spent most of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley 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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