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...
Listening to Peter Jablonski’s new Ondine album, pianists and lovers of piano music may be prompted to ask: ‘Where has...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2022
Bags of invention have gone into this album. Inspired by the ‘arrangement idiom’ of the Baroque, Lucile Boulanger has created...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2022
There cannot be much repertoire for his instrument that Ondřej Vrabec has not yet tackled, which makes his collection of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2022
'Punto blows magnifique’, enthused Mozart to his father from Mannheim in 1778. At the end of the century the Bohemian...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2022
Astor Piazzolla’s centenary in 2021 was marked by a slew of recordings, including superb releases from Karen Gomyo (BIS, A/21),...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2022
Gramophone caught up with the Armida Quartet’s Mozart cycle almost a year ago, with a two-disc set (Vol 3, 4/21)...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022
Writing in the booklet, the Fidelio Trio’s violinist Darragh Morgan and pianist Mary Dullea eloquently describe their strong ties to...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2022
Famed for his Italianate high virtuosity but equally for employing it only with the utmost taste and grace, and for...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2022
In welcoming the unrestrained brilliance of Frank Dupree in Kapustin’s Fourth Piano Concerto (A/21), I compared the experience to listening...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022
Fun fact: the viol consort music of the 16th and 17th centuries was so polyphonically complex and so democratic in...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2022
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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