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...
When we say Bach was a family man, what do we mean? Albums such as the ‘Alt-Bachisches Archiv’ from Cantus...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2021
Christoph Croisé gives an exceptionally free account of Kodály’s monumental Solo Sonata, applying rubato copiously throughout. It’s a somewhat risky...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2021
It is sometimes said, only half-jokingly, that Schubert didn’t write for the piano, but against it. Even among the most...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2021
Percussionist Calum Huggan’s debut solo album, alongside displaying his technical chops and sensitivity, shows how open the marimba is for...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 11/2021
As APR’s note says, we tend to remember Cyril Smith (1909 74) as the pianist who overcame a stroke in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2021
Yet another vividly colour-coded set of the Ysaÿe Solo Sonatas, music that seems to have sidled up alongside Bartók’s late...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2021
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906 83) is not noted for her piano music but wrote for the instrument throughout her career, and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021
For his latest Avie release, British pianist Charles Owen has chosen the nine pieces comprising Liszt’s 1855 Swiss Année, delivering...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2021
Paul Lewis’s second volume of Haydn sonatas features, like the first (which I reviewed in 5/18), four strikingly different characters....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2021
The Dutilleux discography having grown out of all proportion to his output says much for the esteem in which his...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2021
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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