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 sound is magnificent. The Gloucester Cathedral organ displays its Gallic credentials as Ashley Grote goads it to enunciate French...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2013
Martin Helmchen’s programme explores the extremes of Schumann as a piano composer, at both his most inward and his most...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2013
Peter Donohoe and Prokofiev go back more than 30 years on disc. He first recorded the Seventh Sonata in 1982...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2013
Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, born in 1962 in Mannheim, chucks notes around like confetti. In his ensemble and instrumental works, the space...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2013
Here is a recital with a difference – the choice of repertoire sufficiently wide-ranging to give an optimum view of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2013
I do feel that Ireland is one of those composers whose music does not benefit from intégrale recording projects. Individually,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013
Charles Tomlinson Griffes died in 1920 at the age of 35. He’d spent four years studying in Germany and came...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 06/2013
This is an enjoyable Bach recital, cleanly played and nicely recorded on one of the great organs of our time....
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2013
Whereas it could be argued that Antoine Tamestit’s recording of Bach’s violin music (Ambroisie, 8/07) became a little too throaty...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2013
This latest two-disc recording of the monumental Bach Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas sets new standards. Performing on an 18th-century...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2013
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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