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...
There has always been something particularly elegant about French cellists, and older generations of sophisticated players such as Alain Meunier...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2013
This is the first disc of Marcelo Bratke’s Villa-Lobos survey to have come my way (previous instalments included Ciclo brasileiro,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2013
Jordi Masó’s pilgrimage through the complete piano music of Joaquín Turina now evokes the composer’s native city of Seville. Here,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2013
In her personal and engaging notes, Daria van den Bercken, a Dutch pianist who numbers Menahem Pressler among her teachers,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2013
After storming the heights on his disc of Prokofiev’s ‘War’ Sonatas (A/12), Boris Giltburg, the recent winner of the Brussels...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2013
Nelson Goerner is now established as one of the finest pianists around today, another name to add to the lustrous...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2013
With the fourth volume of his Beethoven sonatas, Martin Roscoe reaches some of the more unsung works (if that description...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2013
There’s a natural affinity between Baroque music and the folk tradition. The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, violinist David Greenberg and of...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2013
The Choir of Royal Holloway, of whose previous incarnation I was once a member, is these days a bustling professional...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW2013
‘Ghirlanda Sacra’ (Venice, 1625) is an anthology of 44 motets for solo voice and basso continuo compiled by Leonardo Simonetti,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2013
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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