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...
That Bernard van Dieren (1887-1936) did not come into his own during the CD era is a little surprising. His...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2022
Alina Ibragimova brings us an excellent, eloquent interpretation of Telemann’s Fantasias for solo violin. The sound of Henry Wood Hall...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2022
The match-up of a (if not the) leading Polish pianist with a (if not the) leading 20th-century Polish composer is...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2022
Barry Douglas’s traversal of Schubert’s piano music has now reached the sixth instalment with the largest and last of the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2022
Lyubomir Pipkov (1904-74) belongs to what is called the ‘Second Generation’ of Bulgarian composers, Pancho Vladigerov undoubtedly being the best...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2022
Robert Levin’s lifetime of immersion in the music of Mozart comes to fruition in this release, the complete piano sonatas,...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2022
It’s quite the act of confidence to start off your debut recording with the Gounod/Liszt Faust Waltz. True, Jean-Baptiste Doulcet...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2022
Tom Winpenny’s new recording joins a fairly crowded field of excellent surveys of Elgar’s organ music. For several years Thomas...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2022
Dvořák’s 13 Poetic Tone Pictures (1889) have been recorded what is perhaps a surprising number of times. None of them...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2022
The selling-point of this enterprisingly programmed Debussy album is a newly designed concert grand from Bösendorfer – the 280 VC...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2022
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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