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 Humphreys, formerly assistant organist at St Edmundsbury and now moved up the road (as it were) to Peterborough, concentrates...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2013
The backbone of this programme is the combination of the two most musically demanding of Bach’s Partitas – the second...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2013
Here, on a two-CD recital taken live from the Salzburg Festival, is Alexis Weissenberg in all his alternating brilliance and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2013
Yevgeny Sudbin’s ultra-demanding recital is lovingly chosen to suggest a wealth of subtle inter-relationships. And, in an age of much...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2013
Paolo Giacometti asks ‘authentic or modern?’ in his introductory notes. The pianist has made a career of playing the same...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2013
Aldo Ciccolini, now an elder statesman of the piano, has for long been associated with the music of his adopted...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2013
Those familiar with the lively acoustic of the (audibly empty) Wyastone Concert Hall will know what kind of piano sound...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2013
A lyrical, rubato-laden and slightly shapeless Valse impromptu opens Vanessa Benelli Mosell’s Liszt recital. The pianism is impressively refined and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2013
The opening pages of Dohnányi’s Op 2 might well have been penned by Brahms in one of his jollier moods....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2013
For many pianists there is a long-standing ambition to record a particular composer. For Mitsuko Uchida it was the complete...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2013
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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