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...
Writing on José de Nebra (1702-68), Moisès Fernández Via, a young Spanish pianist, laments the incomprehensible neglect of ‘the most...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW/2012
Before the election of the current German Chancellor, the name Merkel was, so far as British organists were concerned, synonymous...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW/2012
Do you fancy easy-listening piano fare that’s just as virtuoso yet less cheesy than your average Richard Clayderman or Yanni...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW/2012
The Mazurka was a form that engaged Chopin from his teenage years until his death. There are some 62 in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW/2012
Alexandra Dariescu’s solo debut CD offers frequently recorded Romantic repertoire in performances that are generally refined, rounded off but rarely...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW/2012
Khatia Buniatishvili’s all-Liszt debut disc for Sony (9/11) divided opinion. Its successor will not, I think, raise hackles to quite...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW/2012
In Brahms’s Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, should a pianist zero in on the overall grand design...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue:
How are Beethoven’s markings in the Arietta of Op 111 meant to be interpreted? On the one hand he specifies...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW/2012
Here is an antidote to the identikit Beethoven, to sonatas (and even cycles) recorded merely because an artist will sell....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW/2012
This new disc reinforces the extraordinary strengths of the Danish choral tradition. Here are voices of mature suppleness and agility,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2012
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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