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...
Ex-Curtis and Juilliard, Andrew Tyson won fifth prize at the 2012 Leeds Competition. And now he enters a crowded arena...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015
Modern pianists who try to imitate the great Romantic keyboard giants often wind up sounding like caricatures of the real...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2015
Sarah Beth Briggs sandwiches Chopin between Debussy, an appropriate setting when you consider Debussy’s love of Chopin. Not only did...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
As with the three string quartets, it is an interesting exercise to listen to all three of Britten’s cello suites...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2015
The Italian composer Angelo Michele Bartolotti, who died sometime after 1668 and who was closely associated with the court of...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2015
Jean Rondeau’s programme largely consists of Bach works for other instruments, transcribed for harpsichord by the composer and others. Rondeau...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2015
The overt references to the Bach unaccompanied works for violin in Eugène Ysaÿe’s Solo Sonatas mean that the pairing of...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2015
In Anna Gourari’s hands, the quirky, caustic, cameo-like and seemingly spontaneous qualities of Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives become monumental, aloof and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2015
Ten arias by three Italian composers (and the Austrian Fux), all of whom were active in Vienna during the first...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015
Mieczysπaw Weinberg’s time would certainly seem to be now. Advocacy plays a big part in that, of course, and recent...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2015
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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