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...
To whom do you turn for the perfect set of Chopin Preludes? Personally, I don’t think such a thing exists,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2012
For her second Chopin album, Janina Fialkowska once again offers a carefully chosen miscellany rather than a more conventional chronology....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2012
Among younger piano personalities breaking through the international scene, Jeremy Denk has garnered attention for ambitious recital programmes juxtaposing Ives’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2012
Antti Siirala gets off to a strong start in Op 109’s first movement by virtue of his graceful phrasing and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2012
Freedom towards rhythm, passagework impulsively incautious, insight into music streaming through a unique combination of intellectual and emotional responses, and...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 08/2012
Before launching into Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, Andreas Staier offers an overture of sorts. He commences with Anton Diabelli’s C major...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2012
The 150th anniversary of the birth of Anton Arensky passed by all but unnoticed last year. To make amends, here...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2012
Trio Arbós has been nothing if not assiduous in its coverage of the piano trio repertoire and its new disc...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 08/2012
Giovanni Antonio Piani (1678-1760) settled in Paris at the start of the 18th century, at a time when there was...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 08/2012
The CD is illustrated with an image of the JACK Quartet posing like four of Reservoir Dogs’ renegade hotheads. This...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark 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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