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...
This disc gathers together all of composer, pianist and fellow Gramophone critic Peter Dickinson’s piano rags, blues and stylistic take-offs,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2012
For his debut recital disc, the young French pianist Jonas Vitaud offers Brahms’s Op 79 Rhapsodies and the Op 117,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2012
This CD completes a trilogy born of the deeply collaborative partnership between Swiss-born Baroque violinist Maya Homburger and British composer...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 02/2012
Elina Mustonen, a harpsichordist from Finland who studied with Ton Koopman, is a fine player, scrupulously attentive to the music...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 02/2012
Despite the boundaries between classical and popular music becoming increasingly blurred, there’s always been a market for serious music that...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2012
The rant in question is an entertainingly free arrangement of one of the most popular 17th-century Italian dance songs, published...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 02/2012
This is an attractive recital of transcriptions of favourite Spanish pieces – I hesitate to describe them as ‘lollipops’ as...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2012
When reviewing the Danels’ first two instalments (3/08, 2/09), I was as impressed by their preparation and absorption in Weinberg’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2012
The most substantial piece on this record of all Tchaikovsky’s chamber music for violin is actually an arrangement, one he...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2012
Period-instrument Schumann is an as yet little-explored area when it comes to the chamber music. So Voces Intimae, on paper...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith 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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