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...
Come one, come all: come to the camp of pleasure! The year is 1790 and the setting is an elegant...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2022
Two Weimar-period cantatas are presented in their revised Leipzig versions, prepared during Bach’s first few months at the Thomaskirche. Ich...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2022
The last time I reviewed Inon Barnatan in these pages he was playing Schubert (Avie, 11/13), and most impressive it...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2022
Appearances can be deceptive. We’re told online that the Czech violinist Pavel Šporcl ‘combines a talent for classical music with...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2022
If the Oscars had an Academy Award for musical instruments, the cello’s cabinet would be chock-full of trophies by now....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2022
Having walked out of his church job in Salzburg for the first time in August 1777, Mozart was packed off...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2022
Many of the sonatas on this two-disc set of keyboard music by Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836) are premiere recordings, and...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2022
Although Liszt thought highly of his Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and often performed them for friends long after he retreated...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2022
Alexander Kobrin, born (in 1980) and trained in Russia, now based in America, was the winner of the 2005 Van...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2022
Jonathan Fournel takes the Maestoso directive in the opening movement of Brahms’s F minor Sonata seriously and the note values...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2022
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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