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...
Alexandre Tharaud’s splendid idea was ‘to put together an album for the sheer pleasure of it, in collaboration with dear...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2024
This third festival of (mainly) hiss-and-crackle rarities is a very mixed bag indeed. Only the most curious pianophiles need apply....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2024
Robert de Visée was the foremost guitarist and lutenist at the court of Louis XIV and a member of the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2024
During the almost quarter-century since Peter Seabourne (b1960) made his belated return to composition, the Steps piano cycle has grown...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024
Schubert’s 1825 Sonata in C, D840, was left in tatters: the first two movements are complete, but there’s a hole...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 07/2024
Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, who have lived and played together since student days, have released a conceptually tantalising album...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2024
There is a lot going for the pairing of Scriabin and Scarlatti, and this DG debut album is nothing if...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2024
Eden Walker, a British pianist based in Hamburg, has chosen Max Reger for what is apparently his debut recording. The...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2024
Anna Vinnitskaya’s ‘Piano Dances’ uses Ravel’s two large-scale ‘Valse’ pieces to bookend a pair of stylised dance-based groups of miniatures...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024
Saskia Giorgini, of Dutch and Italian heritage, has just released her first album of Debussy which, in terms of secure...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2024
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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