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...
These two CDs focus on an area of Clara Schumann’s output which is every bit as interesting (some would say...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2019
In his Musurgia universalis, sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni (1650), that wildly imaginative polymath Athanasius Kircher all but proclaims...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2019
Suggestion trumps explicitness. Think Fragonard’s L’escarpolette or Herrick’s ‘A sweet disorder in the dress / Kindles in clothes a wantonness’....
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2019
The ‘invention’ of the solo recital is generally credited to Liszt on the basis of his 1839 letter, written from...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2019
These three new discs from Accentus are the fruits of a partnership with Académie France-Chine, launched in 2018 by pianist...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2019
Probably the most attractive part of Mariam Batsashvili’s latest offering is the Liszt Six Polish Songs after Chopin. These arrangements...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2019
I’ve rarely encountered such an ugly-sounding piano release. While the engineering admirably captures Ivo Pogorelich’s wide dynamic scope, his sonority...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2019
If Masaaki Suzuki’s sacred cantata series was necessarily chronological, clearly evident in this new journey – on the basis of...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2019
By choosing two of the most demanding works in the solo cello repertory for his recording debut, Matthew Zalkind seems...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2019
So far as I am aware, the only previous outing on disc by the Siggi Quartet (formed in 2012) was...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2019
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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