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...
Not so much nostalgique as excentrique. Luiza Borac, whose disc of music by her fellow countryman Dinu Lipatti I welcomed...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2014
Steven Osborne is on a bit of a Russian odyssey at the moment. Now it’s the turn of two great...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2014
Locatelli composed L’arte del violino in the mid-1720s, soon after Bach completed his solo Sonatas and Partitas and nearly 80...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2014
For her Decca solo debut, the Italian pianist Maria Perrotta rather boldly offers a live concert recording of Beethoven’s last...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2014
How would Bach react to presenting his entire Art of Fugue in one sitting, with the final fugue incomplete as...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2014
Both of these albums will delight pundits and academics anxious to follow Albéniz’s early style before it blossomed into his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2014
A touching tribute to Colin Davis from the orchestra with which he was latterly most closely associated. Sir Colin was...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2014
It is going to be interesting to see how the newly appointed Master of the Queen’s Music responds to the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW2014
This CD recording of Schoenberg’s most substantial dramatic work appears in the same year that Welsh National Opera gave the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW2014
With few exceptions, Christian Gerhaher ventures well off the beaten track in this superlative recital centring on the echt Schubertian...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2014
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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