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...
Martin Bresnick’s reputation as one of America’s most prominent composition teachers sometimes overshadows his own very considerable creative gifts and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2015
An impressive opening to Brahms’s Trio, Allegro energico as specified. Instrumental balance too is just. But Wu Qian tends to...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2015
Meta4 connect well with Bartók’s sense of humour. Take the meaningful glissandos from 3'43" into the fifth movement of the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2015
Jiří Vodička is the young soloist of the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava and has already made a considerable name...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015
Sucre, Bolivia, 2004. A man stops the American historian William L Lofstrom in the street and offers to sell him...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 01/2015
This disc has two themes to bind it: English keyboard music of the 17th century, and pieces composed over a...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2015
‘Guiomar Novaes: The Complete Published 78rpm Recordings’ consists largely of those short-but-sweet encore pieces that had her adoring audiences (notably...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2015
Four years after winning the 2010 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw – the first woman to do so since Martha...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015
The last time I saw Peter Sculthorpe, who died in August aged 85, was two years ago when I visited...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 01/2015
Winner of the prestigious Premio Venezia prize, Vincenzo Maltempo rides high among many young and gifted Italian pianists. And after...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2015
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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