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...
‘Paul Guinery?’ many UK readers will ask. ‘Where have I heard that name?’ Either Stone Records thinks it doesn’t matter...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2012
I much enjoyed Petronel Malan’s previous discs of ‘transfigured’ Bach, Mozart and Beethoven (4/09) featuring a wide range of transcriptions,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2012
Monotony all too often sets in on discs devoted entirely to the harpsichord sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Not because the...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 07/2012
Abdel Rahman El Bacha’s thoughtfully constructed programme explores Prokofiev’s solo piano works in the years leading up to his departure...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2012
Adding the Rhapsodie roumaine (the 20th Rhapsody) and the late Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos 16-19, Giovanni Bellucci is unusually comprehensive in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2012
This first volume of Mark Bebbington’s planned recording of the complete piano music of Sir Arthur Bliss ranges wide over...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2012
Organists and their audiences are not generally used to musical structures which stretch much beyond the five- or 10-minute mark,...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2012
With the sonatas and bagatelles under his belt, Ronald Brautigam now turns to the variation sets for the 11th instalment...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2012
Nothing like a Beethovenian contradiction to get things going, is there? The marking Andante grazioso quasi allegretto in Op 33...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2012
If you’re looking for vital, stylishly insightful middle Beethoven sonatas, consider Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear, as long as you can...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2012
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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