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...
Paderewski’s Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme in E flat minor have, I think, only made it on to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2019
Born in Beirut and based in Paris for more than four decades, Bechara El Khoury is in his early sixties...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2019
Alexander Ffinch has chosen to show off the newly restored organ of Cheltenham College Chapel with three heavyweight works, each...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW2019
It takes a special kind of pedantry to put square brackets round a single-word title on the cover artwork of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2019
At last, here we have 18 pieces of Chopin by a pianist whose name is rapidly becoming synonymous with searching...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW2019
Most recordings of Bach’s Cello Suites find the soloist summoning their instrument in pursuit of a musical vision. With Emmanuelle...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2019
Piazzolla originally composed his Histoire du tango for flute and guitar but it’s just as frequently taken up by violinists...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2019
Haydn wrote little, if anything, for the harp, but naturally that didn’t stop other musicians arranging his music for the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2019
Jazz has long been associated with dirt and din, its angst-ridden scores providing appropriate atmospheric backdrops to innumerable city noir...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2019
It seems incredible to think that Tchaikovsky’s string quartets were once viewed as insufficiently Russian; but according to Cobbett, when...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW2019
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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