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...
Though the track list has it as Op 38, the Fifth Sonata should really be listed as Op 135, the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2014
No angularities or vertically oriented sounds here. Instead, the capacity of the modern piano for a horizontally sustained line is...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2014
Perhaps more than most of Mendelssohn’s output, the Songs Without Words have contributed to the saccharine image that history has...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2014
Philippe Bianconi has not enjoyed an exactly high-profile career since winning the silver medal at the Seventh Van Cliburn International...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2014
Although this is the second CD issue devoted to Havergal Brian’s complete piano music, it was the first to be...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2014
Brahms’s F sharp minor Sonata is at the heart of Jonathan Plowright’s second volume of the composer’s complete piano works....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2014
The microphone has been Sokolov’s declared enemy for some while, in the concert hall as well as the studio, so...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/2014
Viola de Hoog was the cellist of the Schoenberg Quartet. However, alongside her affinity with the music of the Second...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 12/2014
This CD comprises Italian love songs by composers better known for their operas. Surprisingly, they include few that are well-known,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2014
‘Bertouch’s distinction did not lie in producing music of intrinsic value or interest.’ It takes chutzpah to dismiss the composer...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan 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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