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...
This is the first of Leon McCawley’s Haydn volumes to come my way, though by no means the first of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2022
The idea of a musical refrain (a recurring theme, chorus or ‘hook’) unifies the works on this album, making for...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022
Italian lutenist Simone Vallerotonda, who admits philosophy ‘has been his passion and salvation’, shares with fellow gut-pluckers such as Lukas...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2022
Although occasionally veering towards sobriety, the pianist, composer and critic Peter Dickinson, a fine musician with a wealth of experience,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2022
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, with all its minor-key preludes...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2022
Unlike his more numerous Preludes and less numerous Études, Scriabin’s Mazurkas are not spread evenly across his career, being concentrated...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2022
A great deal of care has gone into the creation of this two-disc Scarlatti recital. That’s evident from the detailed...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2022
You will remember Valentina Lisitsa as the Ukrainian pianist who broke the mould by establishing an international career courtesy of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022
Fans of Jascha Heifetz will have no trouble recognising Flausino Vale’s ‘Ao Pé da Fogueira’, the 15th of his Characteristic...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2022
Feldman’s single-movement late works are monumental in length, culminating in the six hour-long Second String Quartet (find a comfortable seat...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 04/2022
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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