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...
These three cantatas have long been in the canon as celebrated examples of Bach in the first flush of Leipzig...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2023
Richard Goode once witnessed a pianist auditioning for Rudolf Serkin with Mozart’s Duport Variations. After it was over, Serkin said:...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2023
Debussy, one suspects, would not have touched a harpsichord with a bargepole. Yet here is ‘Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum’, his...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2023
Profiling cellist Matthew Barley a few years ago (6/19), Charlotte Gardner aptly called his multi-genre output a ‘fizzing cornucopia’. His...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2023
Before I begin, I must declare an interest: I am a fully paid-up member of the Tal & Groethuysen fan...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023
‘Like many fecund composers,’ wrote Albert Lockwood in 1940, ‘[Anton Rubinstein] offers two kinds of failures. First, the pieces which...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023
Hands up! Who knew that Georges Bizet had made a piano solo arrangement of Mozart’s Don Giovanni? Thought so. My...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023
Pianists who record Mendelssohn’s complete Songs without Words usually present them in order by opus number. For his second and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2023
Well known as author, publisher and one-time A&R representative, Robert Matthew-Walker (b1939) has also amassed a sizeable output. A 2016...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2023
Seong-Jin Cho’s latest project shows all the consideration and respect for the music that we’ve come to expect from this...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2023
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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