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...
To begin at the end: Paul O’Dette’s own tribute (Harmonia Mundi, 7/13) to that inspired miniaturist of the lute, Francesco...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2014
Playing as if before a small late-night audience of friends, Menahem Pressler gives us a warmth and speculation far removed...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014
Vol 13 of Ronald Brautigam’s cycle encompassing Beethoven’s complete solo piano output sheds fresh light on familiar and relatively obscure...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2014
Recorded between 1998 and 2001, and first released in two parts a decade ago, these four discs present all 48...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2014
Listeners used to a wild and woolly Bach Chromatic Fantasia might find Steven Devine’s italicised phrasing overly studied in the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2014
Aho’s writing for organ certainly betrays the same ear for instrumental colour as his orchestral works, and it is refreshing...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2014
Lara Downes says ‘this music holds a nostalgia for another time in American music – a golden generation when concert...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 08/2014
‘The Silver Album’ has been made to mark ‘a level of artistic partnership that is rare, even in the highest...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2014
Splendid news that one of the annual musical treats from EMI has been continued by Warner Classics but this selection...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2014
The Debussy String Quartet looks a little lonely on this new disc without the usual Ravel quartet next to it...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014
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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