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...
Like a mythical harp-playing bard, Joel von Lerber too is a teller of legends. But such is the Berlin-based Swiss...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2022
An ingenious sequence this, some pieces straying further from a Bachian template than others (Kurtág’s gnomic and texturally varied Signs,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2022
Ad Fontes, perhaps the first record label spawned by a monastery, has produced some gems since its inception in 2019,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2022
This generous album may not contain all of Vasks’s solo piano music (there are three further works omitted here) but,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2022
Tan Dun’s numerous large-scale dramatic and multimedia projects have rather overshadowed the instrumental genres in his sizeable output, making this...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2022
Contrasts of mood together with unified relationships of tempo and key signature characterise one the most intelligently programmed and distinctively...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2022
Critical reaction in these pages to Peter Donohoe’s solo Mozart has been mixed. David Threasher enjoyed Vols 1 and 2,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2022
There’s my next Christmas present sorted, then: the box of all 11 volumes of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s complete Haydn survey, please...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2022
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony arranged for piano duet by Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924) is a premiere recording. When I welcomed Vol 1...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2022
This debut album from Dónal McCann is one of the most satisfying organ recordings to have nourished my ears for...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2022
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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