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...
The success of Ravel’s Piano Trio in A minor may have come too late for Debussy to essay a mature...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2014
The compositional history of Atterberg’s quartets is not straightforward. The First, Op 2, was composed in 1907 08 but Atterberg...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2014
All too often the extraneous noises involved in both the operation and the recording of a clavichord can be louder...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2014
There’s no getting around it: Christina Sandsengen is pretty easy on the eye. But the playing on this entry-level recital,...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2014
This thoughtfully themed recital testifies to the wide terms of reference that the Romanian-born pianist Herbert Schuch has at his...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2014
In 2012, 20 years after Messiaen’s death, Peter Hill discovered among his sketches an 11 minute piece that might have...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2014
APR’s three-disc album of Wanda Landowska the pianist, rather than Landowska the iconic harpsichordist, throws down the gauntlet at present-day...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2014
Andreas Staier continues his exploration of Schumann in the company of a richly coloured, eloquent instrument by Erard, which dates...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2014
This recital is all about contrasts: at its centre, that most unpianistic of pieces – the Wanderer Fantasy – bookended...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2014
In the main, Igor Kamenz’s Scarlatti recital serves up unsatisfying interpretations of favourite pieces. Notice the purposeless elongations at phrase...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2014
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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