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 Anna Netrebko cycles out of bel canto and into more lirico-spinto Verdi roles, Giovanna d’Arco stands at the halfway...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014
Ingolf Wunder first came to public attention in 2010 when he was awarded joint second prize in the International Chopin...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2014
Behind pianist James Rhodes’s punk-rock persona and harrowing back story lies a sincere, communicative and mindful musician. He always holds...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2014
Stravinsky and Prokofiev had a long friendship, if that is the right word for a relationship that was mutually influential...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 09/2014
Samuil Feinberg’s magnificent Russian recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (taped 1958-61) commands a range of keyboard colour that at times...
Reviewed in issue AW2014
I suspect that at least two of the previous directors of music at Gonville & Caius College in Cambridge, Patrick...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW2014
In the course of a long and extraordinarily prolific career, Antonio Vivaldi wrote a considerable number of virtuoso concertos. Many...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: AW2014
Entitled ‘The Rascal and the Sparrow: Poulenc meets Piaf’, Antonio Pompa-Baldi presents an irresistible ‘conversation between two icons’. Cabaret and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2014
What would we do without the annual Schloss vor Husum Festival? Here, pianists, known and unknown, gratefully gather to respond...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW14
With his crazy Nelson Mandela shirt, purple shades and head cap of many colours, Friedrich Gulda looks every bit the...
Reviewed by Philip Clark 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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