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...
Ah! Melancholia, aka ‘black bile’, yet socially fashionable in late-16th- and early-17th-century England. And wonder not why John Dowland isn’t...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2014
In 1998 OxRecs released a critically acclaimed disc of music released to celebrate the installation of the new Nicholson organ...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2014
This intriguingly varied recital takes its title from ‘Harmonies du soir’, grandest and most expansive of Liszt’s 12 Transcendental Etudes....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014
What gives distinction to this disc of 20th-century French organ music by the usual suspects is the recording location –...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2014
How do you interpret Molto moderato as a tempo in the first movement of D960? Awkward question, which probably explains...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2014
Bertrand Chamayou, on his first disc for Erato, offers a kind of Schubertiade of the mind – and it proves...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2014
Alfred Schnittke may not have written the most idiomatic and finger-friendly piano music of his time. Yet he surely understood...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2014
Following five issues of Roussel’s orchestral music, Naxos now gives us the first of a three-volume set of the piano...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014
William Youn is a young Korean pianist who plans to record the complete Mozart piano sonatas over a five-year period....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014
John Cluer published Handel’s Suites de pièces pour le clavecin in November 1720. Hyperion’s set by harpsichordist Paul Nicholson (6/95)...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014
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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