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...
Beethoven wrote 10 sonatas for pianoforte and violin. It seems perverse of Decca to market this set with just Kavakos’s...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 03/2013
I was very taken with the first instalment of the Gould Trio’s live Beethoven cycle, captured at St George’s, Brandon...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2013
At first glance, these three composers appear to have little in common. However, the sonatas are all early works, written...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 03/2013
It may look on the outside like a bit of a pops disc (best-known Bach and Beethoven, and white-knuckle showpieces...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2013
An Oxford institution for over 20 years (with a personnel list that ebbs and flows with the best singers of...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2013
Recital audiences are often confronted with singers performing texts originally written for different genders and voice types, so this recording...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 01/2013
Stile Antico have continued a tradition established by the Tallis Scholars and The Sixteen, though with a bigger sound than...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2013
This exploration of mostly 17th-century English sacred music understandably gives pride of place to Purcell and his mentors Locke and...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2013
Are coloratura soprano showcases ever supposed to be this provocative? With her solid technique, mid-weight chest voice, small but spot-on...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2013
Now at the peak of his recording career, Gerald Finley is unsystematically jumping from Ives to Ravel to Schumann, no...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2013
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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