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...
David et Jonathas seems like a full-scale Lullian opera, with a prologue and five acts, but was devised as a...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2013
The spirit of Alfred Cortot and, to a lesser extent, Harold Bauer hangs over this most distinguished and enterprising recital....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013
A distinctive 2011 CD containing Prokofiev’s first five sonatas (7/11) garnered positive attention for the Romanian pianist Alexandra Silocea, whose...
Reviewed by Distler in issue: 09/2013
Anthony Goldstone follows an initial volume of operatic transcriptions with arrangements of music from the ballets, again including a number...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013
Peter Seabourne (b1960) has built a sizeable output since resuming composition in 2001 and these discs confirm no mean artistry...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 09/2013
If this were a Gramophone Collection survey of Schoenberg’s piano music, and I’d already discussed the relative merits, or otherwise,...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 09/2013
The 15 Scarlatti sonatas and four Soler sonatas presented on this disc stem from a manuscript collection held in the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2013
For Angela Hewitt the pieces on this album are all ‘old friends’ and music which she first learnt while in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013
Listening to these two new recordings of Bach’s wonderfully vigorous English Suites, it is hard to see why they are...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2013
To be so moved by so little is to show in perfectly appropriate terms the very nature of these pieces,...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2013
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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