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...
It is still relatively rare these days for established mainstream pianists to fall for an old instrument hook, line and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2024
Handel, Lawes, Blow, Locke, Purcell, Schop, Jenkins, Baltzar and Jones; sonatas, suites, concerts, grounds and popular tunes … this exploration...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2024
‘O sink upon us, night of love …’ Well, ‘Love Music’ is the title of this album from pianist Yeol...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2024
‘The Golden Age of Hollywood’: it’s an attractive idea for a recital, made even more interesting by the fact that...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2024
Just short of his half-century, Huw Watkins has long been active as both composer and pianist, and on disc an...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024
The third volume of the Carducci Quartet’s Shostakovich cycle pairs two of the mightiest of the 15. Both the five-movement...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2024
I became obsessed with Sergey Taneyev’s Piano Quintet (1915) after hearing Pletnev, Repin, Gringolts, Imai and Harrell’s incendiary account (DG,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2024
Born in Kharkiv, trained in France and Switzerland, spiritually inspired in India and harboured by the United States, Marcelle de...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2024
This remarkable sequence of compositions by Michael Finnissy (b1943) has several special qualities. The framing performances of different versions of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024
Just as the musical world has moved on from the polarity of authentic versus modern performance, here comes the A-word...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2024
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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