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...
As a sometime Lieder accompanist and conductor, Swiss-born guitarist Christoph Denoth is superbly placed to exploit the cantabile and colouristic...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2014
The Swedish virtuoso Gunnar Idenstam tells us that he has toyed with the idea of arranging Debussy’s La mer for...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014
The greater recorded availability of Irish new music over these past two decades has enabled composers such as Raymond Deane...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2014
How aware are we of the immense influence of Tobias Matthay, an RAM teacher whose innumerable pupils included Myra Hess,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2014
For his second Delphian Chopin disc, David Wilde offers a determined attack on conventional wisdom. Here is no ‘sick-room talent’...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014
After Brahms performed his First Piano Sonata, a friend mentioned the resemblance between its opening theme and that of Beethoven’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2014
Because Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations usually last anywhere from 45 to 58 minutes, I wondered if the 72-and-a-half-minute timing for Christina...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2014
Many cultural events in Australia are preceded by a Welcome to Country, a short yet beautiful ceremony in which a...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2014
Although Christine Schornsheim has recorded sound and stylish JS Bach interpretations, she truly lets loose with his son Carl Philipp...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2014
If there is only one thing all cellists agree on, it is that the Bach Cello Suites are not starter...
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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