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...
At the end of the development section of the Allegro vivace of Op 31 No 1, Beethoven presents a wonderful...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022
Julia Severus introduced Adolf Barjansky (1851-1900) to these pages in September 2020 with her first volume of premiere recordings. That...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022
Technically, this album is difficult to fault. Frank Peter Zimmermann’s playing of the Preludio of Bach’s Partita No 3 in...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2022
Jean Rondeau’s Goldberg Variations clocks in at 107 minutes, observing all the repeats, including those in the Aria da capo....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2022
The idea for this disc arose from these performers’ shared love of Janáček’s music. Laura van der Heijden – 2012’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
Principal clarinettist of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Maximiliano Martín joins forces with pianist Scott Mitchell for what is more or...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022
Fenella Humphreys conveyed tangible identity with Sibelius through her recent accounts of the Violin Concerto and all six Humoresques (8/21),...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2022
Readers may remember the perky pair of Mozart violin concertos Francesco Dego released last year with Roger Norrington and the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022
It’s interesting, albeit unsurprising, that Mendelssohn, despite his Violin Concerto in E minor of 1844 sitting as one of the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022
Mendelssohn was famously acclaimed (by Schumann) as ‘the Mozart of the 19th century’ and (by Liszt) as ‘Bach reborn’. Both...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore 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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