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...
It is very much the fashion for young pianists to record multi-movement suites by a single composer and intersperse pieces...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2023
To those names who, early on, represented Australian musical talent abroad, the soprano Nellie Melba (1861-1931) and pianist-composer Percy Grainger...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2023
Just as 9/11 prompted a wave of commemorative works, so is the Russian invasion of Ukraine now doing. Lewis Spratlan’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2023
With this double album of the first seven canonic sonatas, Angela Hewitt extends her foray into Mozart begun in 2011...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2023
There seems to be no other recording currently available of this particular programme. All four of Edward MacDowell’s sonatas have...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2023
First impressions are important. While they do not always provide a definitive guide to what follows, they cannot help but...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2023
Hard on the heels of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s critically acclaimed intégrale comes Peter Donohoe’s two-disc album, the first volume presumably in...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2023
Philip Glass’s first book of 10 Études may on the surface present little more than a stroll in the park...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2023
Relatively few organists have explored the byways of early Iberian organ music, despite there being a goodly number of surviving...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2023
‘New Paths’ refers of course to the title of Robert Schumann’s essay in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in which...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2023
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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