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...
Momentousness seems prevalent at every turn: the perceptive, passionate notes, the lavish, 112-page booklet and the general dignity of the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2022
The latest in APR’s valuable series of Wilhelm Kempff reissues brings together all of his non-Beethoven electrical Polydor 78s. Some...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022
With this sixth volume we reach the end of Howard Shelley’s journey through Mendelssohn’s solo piano music. And what a...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2022
Today it is difficult to imagine the ‘market saturation’ enjoyed by Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words in the 19th century, an...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2022
This is my first encounter with Nikolay Medvedev, a Russian pianist born in 1986, a graduate of the Gnessin Russian...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2022
You can think of this impressive release as a two-disc illustration of its title or simply as a pair of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2022
Gustav Piekut doubtless raised eyebrows through making his recorded debut with Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations (Danacord, 2019), and a similarly questing...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022
With Bach, approaches to interpretation may be many and varied but there is some kind of established yardstick for such...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2022
If a single word were to describe what pianists played in public during the 19th century, it might be ‘variety’....
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2022
Now that Angela Hewitt has concluded her Beethoven sonata cycle with two of its ‘biggest guns’, it appears that she...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022
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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