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...
Hungarian pianist Dénes Várjon has received much attention for his chamber music prowess, notably in collaboration with cellist Steven Isserlis....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2012
Musicians of David Russell’s taste and experience are like connoisseurs. When they perform a piece of music it’s as though...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2012
Yuja Wang’s ‘Fantasia’ may be a this-and-that recital (including lavish tributes to Horowitz and Cziffra, two of the 20th century’s...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012
This is an account of Gaspard to live with as much as for its technical assurance as for the unsettling...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2012
An extraordinary pianist for extraordinary music. This is Scriabin as you have never heard him before, played by one of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012
A couple of years back I much enjoyed Hideyo Harada’s disc of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov (4/09). This release proves to...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2012
As a rich and fascinating corollary, Martin Jones adds to his previous discs of Mompou’s piano music another three-CD album...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012
Acknowledgement of Fauré’s genius percolates slowly. And there are still knowing factions who dismiss him as a minor salon figure,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012
Pianists who embark on complete Brahms cycles usually present the groups of small pieces as integral units by opus number:...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2012
As we enter double figures in Hyperion’s distinguished series of transcriptions of Bach for piano, we are reminded of how...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2012
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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