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...
French guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre, here making his DG debut in fine style, says ‘Visages baroques’ refers to the ‘different qualities’...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2023
Concept albums are well and good when the concept is sufficiently poetic, provocative or enigmatic to intrigue or encourage rather...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2023
It is a decade since Piers Lane last went to town (10/13) and his latest visit there was completed only...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2023
If not a debut, this release introduces Daniela Roma to a wider listenership with its judicious overview of Scriabin’s 1890s...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2023
'Going all over the place, yet going nowhere.’ No, that’s not an obscure Bob Dylan lyric but rather my reaction...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2023
Another month, another Mozart sonata cycle, or so it seems. Following on from Mao Fujita’s largely impressive cycle, here’s one...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2023
Dipping into and across veteran Japanese lutenist Toyohiko Satoh’s recorded catalogue, you can’t help but think that for him the...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2023
On this release, up-and-coming Zhenni Li Cohen sets herself a substantial challenge. To begin with, Ukrainian-born Sergei Bortkiewicz is a...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 07/2023
Organist, harpsichordist and sometimes pianist Wolfgang Rübsam here performs Bach’s monumental Das woltemperirte Clavier on a single-manual gut-strung Lautenwerk or...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2023
This is Bach in private mode, intimate, exploratory and rarely demonstrative. Nils Anders Mortensen recorded this first set of three...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 07/2023
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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