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...
I am tempted to set my morning alarm to go off with Bavouzet’s Haydn C major Sonata (HobXVI:1) – it’s...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2021
In much-recorded pieces such as these, you really have to get everything right to bear comparison with earlier versions. The...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2021
For the third volume in his traversal of Bach’s organ works, James Johnstone presents a programme that could be said...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2021
Mark Viner’s fourth volume in his complete Alkan odyssey is artfully conceived and astutely ordered. He opens with the only...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2021
The stars of this programme are the instruments themselves, all of which come from the Violins of Hope project. Originally...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2021
Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih take Proust as the starting point for their new themed album. Given that music itself...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2021
Neither Bradford-born, French-domiciled Frederick Delius’s posthumous Violin Sonata in B of 1892 nor John Ireland’s First Violin Sonata of 1909...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2021
It’s a rare violinist who gets the chance to perform on Paganini’s favourite violin, the 1743 Guarneri del Gesù he...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2021
Back in the day, older readers might recall, some of us made compilation cassettes of favourite music to impress/woo/entertain loved...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2021
What is so hip about HIP? When Purcell is played in a pub or Handel is remixed by a DJ...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2021
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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