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...
The last time Rachmaninov’s complete Preludes came my way was Steven Osborne’s widely praised account (Hyperion, 6/09), a set which...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2013
Here are two Prokofiev recitals by two Russian pianists of different generations (Koroliov is now 64, Kozhukhin 27), the first...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2013
The opening ‘Promenade’ sets the tone for the whole of Alice Sara Ott’s visit to Mussorgsky’s gallery. It sounds as...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2013
Think for instance of Walter Gieseking, and his performances of K331 and K332 (EMI Icons) that combine precisely articulated playing,...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2013
This disc is a distillation of the pieces Matthew Barley is taking on his 100-date tour this year to celebrate...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2013
The second volume of Jonathan Biss’s Beethoven cycle for Onyx begins with the Op 7 Sonata, where the first movement...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2013
Vladimir Feltsman’s 1999 Bach Partitas first appeared around a decade ago on the Urtext label, coupled with the same composer’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2013
It is very appealing to be taken on a tour of Italy through Respighi, Puccini, Verdi and Boccherini by way...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2013
The two-violin repertoire is a wide and varied one, and even though this new disc focuses on ‘English Violin Duos’,...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 04/2013
Although all of these composers were active in Terezín (Theresienstadt), only the works by Klein and Ullmann were written there,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2013
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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