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...
Ysaÿe dedicated each of these sonatas to a different, then-famous, performer-friend, and each is wildly different in character as a...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2012
Here is a declaration of musical faith if ever there was one. No pianist has done more for Medtner’s reputation...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2012
For the second volume of his Chopin cycle, Louis Lortie prefaces major pieces such as the Four Ballades with Nocturnes,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2012
When it comes to Beethoven’s complete survey of piano sonatas on disc, EMI appears to take risks. After all, they...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2012
As with the Solo Sonatas and Partitas for violin, people tend to ally themselves to one particular recording of the...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2012
This recording is very much aimed at the French market. The viola player Gérard Caussé and the late actor Laurent...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 05/2012
Central to Simone Dinnerstein’s recording ambitions is a kind of reflective Bach-playing which, with or without Larkin’s line ‘Something almost...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2012
In what feels a bit like a ‘taster’ disc (which doesn’t do justice to music performed with this much authority)...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2012
For their latest foray into the multifaceted world of Bach’s organ music, Margaret Phillips and her engineer and producer Gary...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2012
Ragnhild Hemsing stands out even in the crowded market of young (she is just 23), attractive and photogenic female violinists....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2012
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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