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...
At her London recital in June, Khatia Buniatishvili played a second half of virtuoso works (Chopin, Ravel, Stravinsky) that bordered...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2014
You may think that Percy Whitlock might not have been the most likely composer to produce a successful organ solo...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 09/2014
This third volume concludes Hans-Eberhard Ross’s magisterial survey of Vierne’s six organ symphonies, recorded in 2013 on his ‘home’ organ,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2014
When he plays live, Valerio Tricoli’s beanpole frame is concealed behind a bank of plugged-in hardware: multiple tape machines, loudspeakers...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2014
Alexander Paley has taken the Russian repertoire to heart. His earlier issue of Balakirev’s complete piano works (Brilliant, 5/11) is...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014
Like buses that turn up together, so this second volume of Stanford’s organ works comes out at much the same...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2014
William Carter’s two exquisite volumes of a selection of Fernando Sor’s equally exquisite shorter gems have pretty much spoilt me...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2014
‘Scriabin, where does he come from, and who are his followers?’ asked Stravinsky, lost in bewilderment and wonder. Others took...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014
For the first in a three-release series surveying Rameau’s complete keyboard works, Steven Devine plays on a harpsichord copied from...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2014
After listening to a ferociously gifted firebrand virtuoso, though one inclined towards hysteria (Khatia Buniatishvili – see page 85), Howard...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014
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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