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...
Alessandro Scarlatti composed more than 800 cantatas, so it is little wonder that these four for soprano voice, two violins...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2024
‘The songs of Roger Quilter seem to have been with me all my life’, James Gilchrist tells us in a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2024
A few of Bononcini’s sacred works copied in English 18th-century manuscripts can be connected to their use in concerts by...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2024
APR first issued this iconic collection in 1992 (APR7020, 6/92). It was a revelation for many pianophiles who had either...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2024
The second volume of Rebeca Omordia’s ‘African Pianism’ proves as much of a revelation as the first (5/22). The opening...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024
Whether or not he would admit it, playing jazz piano in the cafés of post-war Cologne left its mark on...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2024
Schubert composed around 450 dances for piano. While their original function may have been modest, all are exemplary of their...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2024
Since his silver medal at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition, the American pianist George Li, who turns 29 this summer, has...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2024
Sometimes a recording comes up for review which, when you listen to a particular piece that you know well, is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2024
Arto Koskinen’s piano cycle Fuga indiana is a group of 17 pieces that aim to synthesise Baroque contrapuntal techniques with...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024
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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