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...
This is a beautiful collection of guitar arrangements of songs by Manos Hadjidakis, one of Greece’s most famous tragoudistes. The...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2023
I was excited to hear this programme, not least because the Fauré Impromptus get out far less often than they...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2023
Leopold Godowsky once bumped into the young Abram Chasins. ‘Is it true’, he asked, ‘that your Rush Hour in Hong...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023
Two decades ago Cédric Tiberghien recorded a disc of Beethoven variations (4/03) that included the three major sets here (Opp...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2023
More and more classically trained pianists are embracing improvisation and composition, including Camille El Bacha, whose solo piano release ‘Lumen’...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2023
Lucy Humphris’s debut album (her only previous recording – as far as – I can determine – being Cecilia McDowall’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2023
Franco-Romanian violinist Sarah Nemtanu, leader of the Orchestre National de France as well as a fine soloist in her own...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2023
Every string quartetter, amateur or pro, knows the problem of finding appropriate encore pieces, and every quartet has its own...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2023
‘Dissonance wants to become consonance, it longs to be undone’, according to Bruno Walter, and in his own music it...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2023
Guitarist/composer Stanley Silverman (b1938) has had a remarkable career. A student of Milhaud and Leon Kirchner, he was highly in...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2023
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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