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 July 2022, having established themselves in the Parisian church of Saint-Eustache, the Chapel Choir of Trinity College Cambridge under...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
Following on from their Gramophone Award-winning Fauré survey (8/22), Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës head into hitherto uncharted territory with...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024
The story of how the 20-year-old Mendelssohn revived the unknown St Matthew Passion by Bach at a series of performances...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024
Franco Alfano is best known these days for his completion of Puccini’s Turandot but he was a prolific composer in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024
These two German Baroque keyboard recitals are strikingly similar in both conception and programme. Zsombor Tóth-Vajna uses the Orpheus myth...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2024
This is the fourth release by the Cologne-based husband-and-wife piano duo team of Gülru Ensari and Herbert Schuch. As Schuch...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2024
If Can Çakmur’s recordings so far have shown anything, it’s that this rising star of the Turkish piano scene has...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2024
Arvo Pärt’s piano works may not rate as highly in his oeuvre as the choral settings or symphonic works but...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
Those au fait with the music of Edmund Finnis via releases such as ‘The Air, Turning’ (NMC, 4/19) and ‘Shades’...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
Lucas Debargue is an artist who likes to go his own way, as witness his terrifically characterful Scarlatti sonatas (11/19),...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024
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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