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...
Clarinet quintets by Brahms and Reger make an obvious coupling that should have been taken up more widely but which...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2023
How string quartets engage with the musical challenges and opportunities of performing ‘old’ four-part music – whether Purcell’s Fantasias or...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2023
I almost wish that Krzysztof Meisinger’s improvised Invocazione introducing Domeniconi’s popular Koyunbaba suite had opened his recital, so mysterious and...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2023
This is a heartfelt tribute to the pianist’s late poet grandfather, whose fondness for the French belle époque repertoire is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023
Yuja Wang first came to international attention in 2007 when she stood in for Martha Argerich in Boston. A few...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023
Although Hilary Hahn’s DG disc devoted to Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Solo Violin Sonatas (Recording of the Month in the August...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2023
Listening to the 2016 Queen Elisabeth Competition online, I chanced upon a terrific account of Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata in progress,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2023
This is, unquestionably, a great piano recording. In this young pianist’s hands you will hear one of the finest-ever performances...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023
Listening to Saskia Giorgini’s fifth release on Pentatone, it’s easy to see how her career has inspired such enthusiasm. She...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2023
Having previously come across Anna Zassimova’s name only in connection with the Russian Georgy Catoire, whose works she has staunchly...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2023
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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