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...
Seventeenth-century purists abhorred Giasone for playing fast and loose with the myth of the Golden Fleece, and for juxtaposing high...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2012
UK-based Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski has already shown himself to be a gifted musical collaborator – witness his work with...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2012
After many years as the pianist in the celebrated Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler made a dramatic return to his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2012
Here is a good-themed programme from this 20-year-old Uzbek newcomer of ‘demonic dances, God and war, combining technical virtuosity with...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2012
Markus Hinterhäuser’s complete Ustvolskaya piano sonata cycle, recorded in 1998, never did quite cut the mustard like Marianne Schroeder’s 1994...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 08/2012
These 12 Fantasias, which together comprise 41 high-Baroque morsels, fall into two sets of six: the first largely sorrowful and...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2012
Marc-André Hamelin’s third Haydn volume reaches a halfway mark in 60 or so sonatas of tireless range, wit and inventiveness....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2012
Josef Matthias Hauer was the early-20th-century Austrian atonal composer who wasn’t Arnold Schoenberg. At one stage the two were chummy...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 08/2012
Were you to hear for the first time Debussy’s 12 Preludes, Book 1, in the hands of Michael Korstick you...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2012
Chopin’s four rondos for solo piano make a pleasant sequence. In the first two we can see him struggling to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2012
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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