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...
Often known as ‘the Mount Everest of the keyboard’, Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata poses every conceivable problem, musically and technically (though...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014
With major Bach vocal works now appearing on Hyperion, notably under Stephen Layton, the absence of an à la mode...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014
Bach on the violin is perhaps the only remaining enclave in the composer’s oeuvre where partisan views on equipment and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014
It says a lot for this disc that, when Gramophone’s Editor chose it as his Recording of the Month and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2014
A self-recommending six-disc set from Sony Classical is ‘Murray Perahia plays Chopin’ which includes the Gramophone Award-winning disc of the Etudes. As...
Reviewed by James Jolly in issue: 3/2011
How does he do it? We all know Daniel Barenboim eats, sleeps and dreams music, but somehow he has found...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2014
Pushkin, Blok, Gogol, Pasternak: some fine Russian writers come together here. Their elusive and allusive verses both invite and defy...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2014
Composed in Rathgar, Dublin, and powerfully evocative of the County Wicklow landscape, Bax’s Four Orchestral Pieces were first heard in...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2014
As Poland’s most famous living composer, Penderecki might expect to have been feted on his 80th birthday, as indeed it...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2014
This is an exquisite performance of the Duruflé Requiem, beautifully evoking the inherent intimacy of the version with chamber orchestra...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2014
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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