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...
Carolin Widmann is an outstandingly enterprising artist at a time when many leading violinists are content to stick with the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2015
Impromptus may be the subject of Tomasz Lis’s solo CD debut but the pianist’s generally reserved and charmless interpretations suggest...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2015
First, the recording. Duo d’Accord – Lucia Huang and Sebastian Euler – lives up to its name in terms of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2015
Simply entitled ‘Etude’, Clare Hammond’s recital is gloriously deceptive. For here is no familiar programme of Chopin and Liszt but...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2015
Bach is the arbiter of many good and different things, and it’s no coincidence that the only composers paired with...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2015
Initially idolised by a small coterie, Scriabin was also vilified by those who placed reason above passion, clarity above obscurity....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2015
As with its predecessor (9/14), the second of four projected releases in this superbly engineered download-only Rameau cycle features a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 4/2010
Alfredo Piatti, born in Bergamo in 1822, settled in London in the 1840s. Here, in addition to his career as...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2015
‘Neglected Treasures’ promises the CD cover. This is surely stretching a point with the two variation sets, on ‘Ah, vous...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2015
Mozart’s solo keyboard music inhabits a somewhat isolated corner. Great Mozartians from Clifford Curzon to Alfred Brendel to Clara Haskil...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns 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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