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...
Lots of composers write music that sounds like Louis Andriessen’s – but luckily Louis Andriessen isn’t one of them. The...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2012
Listening to this recording, it is hard to imagine Anders Ericson playing ‘progressive metal’ on the electric guitar – something...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 02/2012
Another talented artist hoping to be the next Lang Lang or Yuja Wang and another booklet biography with the usual...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2012
Filming an organist playing a recital is a notoriously difficult assignment. Either the position of the organ will not allow...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2012
This selection, culled from Thomas Tomkins’s ‘lessons of worthe’, is an exciting foray into some of the darker corners of...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 02/2012
Dotted around the vast output of British organ composers of the 19th and 20th centuries is a tiny handful of...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2012
Shostakovich’s two-piano and duet transcriptions of his symphonies served strictly utilitarian purposes. Essentially they allowed the composer himself, and his...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2012
The C major Fantasie continues to exert its fascination upon pianists and pianophiles, and here come two new recordings of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2012
In Alexander Gavrylyuk we have a young Russian pianist who has surely inherited the mantle of Emil Gilels, during his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2012
For Tatyana Nikolaieva, Nikolai Lugansky was ‘the next one’, and her admiration is underlined in this outstanding recital. Lugansky’s approach...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2012
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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