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...
Neither quill nor leather-covered hammer vibrates a string. Rather a wooden slip does duty for a tangent piano, its strident...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2014
There’s something about Gottlieb Wallisch’s stern and spiky reading of the Haydn E flat Sonata, No 59 (old No 49),...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2014
Attractively entitled ‘Beau soir’, Michael Lewin’s recital opens with an arrangement by Koji Attwood of one of Debussy’s earliest songs....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014
While there is no evidence to suggest that Kåre Nordstoga is embarking on a complete Bach series, his second two-CD...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2014
I have yet to come across a masterpiece for the pedal piano (Schumann’s Op 56 being an arguable exception) but...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2014
During the 1640s, Giuseppe (or Gioseffo) Zamponi became director of chamber music for the Spanish governor-general of the Low Countries,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2014
It is less than a decade since James Rutherford won the inaugural Seattle Opera International Wagner competition but he has...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 09/2014
After performances of Aida in front of the pyramids and Peter Grimes on the beach at Aldeburgh, it is perhaps...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 09/2014
For many, the German soprano Evelyn Herlitzius is today’s finest Elektra. And the record companies seem to agree: these two...
Reviewed 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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