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...
Stravinsky was a more than capable pianist, having been given rigorous training by a distinguished teacher, Leokadia Kashperova, who in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2015
This disc supplements the recent BIS release of instrumental music by Sofia Gubaidulina (A/14). So sei es – a 20-minute...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2015
Like Nikolaus Harnoncourt, René...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2015
Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto has never been more popular but for her second concerto collaboration on disc the young Armenian-born...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2015
Good news for pianophiles everywhere that Grigory Sokolov has, as DG put it, now signed an exclusive contract. This is...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015
This is, to my mind, the finest volume yet in Sir Mark Elder’s unfolding Vaughan Williams cycle with the Hallé....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2015
This is a glorious disc. Simply glorious. Anderszewski and Bach have long been congenial bedfellows and the Pole’s playing here...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015
Sol Gabetta tells us in her notes that the title of her disc, ‘Prayer’, comes from her familiarity and identification...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 01/2015
Any chamber music recording that’s so forward-looking that the reward at the end is Ives’s Piano Trio deserves automatic respect....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2015
This disc offers a splendid celebration of the artistry of the oboist Sarah Francis. All but one of the works...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield 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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