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...
The Brahms Op 117 Intermezzos that lead off Mikhail Pletnev’s excellently engineered 2023 Berlin recital reveal the pianist’s colouristic gifts...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024
I’ve previously written about how Xaver Scharwenka’s piano-duet transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies are more resourceful and idiomatic from a pianistic...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024
Some 12 years have passed since my previous review of Bach’s Six Trio Sonatas for organ. On that occasion (1/12)...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2024
Bach’s Art of Fugue has, arguably, fared better on piano than harpsichord, especially in recent years, with fine renditions from...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 07/2024
Benjamin Alard’s project to record Bach’s complete harpsichord and organ music is laudable and ambitious, of interest in particular for...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2024
‘What in the dazes is Pre-Raphaelite music?’ I hear you ask – as well you might, as this is a...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024
Modern recordings of Arnold Bax’s great Viola Sonata are thin on the ground and so it is a joy to...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 07/2024
The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam enjoy a healthy Tchaikovsky lineage. They studied with Marc Danel, whose Quatuor Danel in turn studied...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2024
Strauss’s chamber music output for strings is such that there aren’t many obvious programming combinations. As a result, this isn’t...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2024
In an interesting booklet note for this formidably competitive release, Richard Wigmore remarks, concerning the epic Quartet No 15 in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan 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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