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...
Few pianists have possessed a more comprehensive, magisterial technique or musical integrity than Emil Gilels (his early volatility later calming...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012
Aficionados of Widor’s Toccata will be interested to know that Joseph Nolan adopts the slow and stately approach, rather than...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 09/2012
Recordings of Tartini’s violin sonatas are relatively rare. Two excellent recordings by period players come to mind: those of Elizabeth...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 09/2012
Saint-Saëns once claimed he produced music ‘as an apple tree produces apples’, revelling in his ability to conjure virtually anything...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012
Debussy once declared that Ravel possessed ‘the most refined ear that has ever existed’ and it is to Anna Vinnitskaya’s...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012
Here, even in Rachmaninov’s most savage and turbulent pages, is playing of an awesome clarity and poise. Xiayin Wang makes...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012
At last, a modern recording devoted to Selim Palmgren (1878-1951), a Finnish composer and pianist who has languished in obscurity...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012
Katya Apekisheva’s previous disc of Grieg’s solo works (Quartz, 9/08) was well received by Bryce Morrison. I should like to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2012
Alexei Lubimov, unlike most pianists, wants us to hear Debussy ‘in a different timbral guise, cloaked in the early 20th-century...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2012
No sooner has the first double-disc release in HJ Lim’s Beethoven sonata survey (5/12) appeared than EMI releases the entire...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2012
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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