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...
Young pianist John Wilson has chosen an interesting blend of 20th-century American piano music for his solo debut release on...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2022
I might just as well simply repeat what I wrote in the February 2019 issue when I welcomed Mark Viner’s...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2022
Bram van Sambeek brings us Bach on the bassoon. And to overdo the alliteration, his playing is bold, beguiling and...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2022
The chorale prelude has so long been established in our musical culture as a stand-alone organ piece that its origins...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2022
Important cello sonatas arrived in trickles until 1878, Steven Isserlis writes in his detailed and delightfully informative booklet note, the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2022
This album charts the Francoeur family – a French musical dynasty spanning the Baroque to the early Romantic period. First,...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2022
The excellent booklet notes tell us that there is ‘no extant record’ of what works were specifically performed at the...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2022
Recordings of Vaughan Williams’s two numbered string quartets have never been exactly thick on the ground, so a hearty welcome...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2022
What can I say? This is just a fantastic recording. It sounds great, the playing is erudite and courageous, and...
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 12/2022
‘Hae Ke Kae’ means ‘Where Is Home?’ in Sesotho, and while Abel Selaocoe’s ancestral home may be in South Africa,...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2022
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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