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...
Aside from the clear yet somewhat bright engineering, the first thing an astute listener will notice about this Mozart recital...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2014
After penning Farewell, which Paul O’Dette describes as Dowland’s greatest solo lute work, the composer was to live for 30...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2014
The most striking thing about Jamie Walton in the interview that opens Paul Joyce’s film of Benjamin Britten’s three Cello...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2014
York Bowen (1884-1961) became the cruel victim of passing and dismissive fashion, his lovingly crafted, lyrically haunting ideas swept aside....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2014
Although Claudio Arrau’s Beethoven hardly lacks catalogue representation, this first release of live Swedish Radio performances from April 5, 1960,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2014
‘Passion and Fantasy’ is the eye-catching title for Sophia Agranovich’s recital of Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata and Chopin’s Fantaisie and B...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2014
Normally one concludes a review with comments about sound quality, but in this case the engineering’s full-bodied piano sonority and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2014
Finally, the Ukrainian viola player Maxim Rysanov has completed his collection of JS Bach’s Cello Suites transcribed for viola after...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2014
The Bingham Quartet have long included new commissions in concerts and this disc collates works mainly written either side of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2014
Tamsin Waley-Cohen’s love for Debussy’s Violin Sonata of 1917 led her to assemble four works for violin and piano written...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2014
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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