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...
In March 2019 Beatrice Rana had the New York press in raptures with her Carnegie Hall Chopin. I can see...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2021
Chopin indicates his Op 18 as a Grande valse brillante, yet Anna Fedorova’s fussy detailing and unsettled basic pulse make...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021
A long list of international competition victories and performances grace the 39-year-old Israeli-born, American-based pianist Ran Dank’s résumé, not to...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021
Sophie Yates is an artist who wears her immense erudition lightly. Listening to her, one encounters the composer’s voice, clothed...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2021
Richard Bratby was little short of bowled over by Jennifer Pike and Petr Limonov’s first volume of music by Polish...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2021
Notions of authenticity don’t obviously map themselves on to a piece so inherently adaptable to circumstances, and designed that way...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2021
Having issued, among much other repertoire, a well-received complete set of Beethoven’s ouput for piano trio, the Gould Trio now...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2021
This appealing trans-centennial musical diversion offers a good excuse to showcase three quality Polish sonatas that fall beyond the familiar...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2021
This programme may have been designed as a centenary tribute to Astor Piazzolla but it’s Juanjo Mosalini who steals the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2021
Felix Mendelssohn’s Quartets in A and F minor, the one an astonishing response to the challenge of late Beethoven, the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2021
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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