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...
A recording of the complete harpsichord music of François Couperin is a major project in any circumstances. But to record...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2019
After his Swiss watch and perfume (‘Essence of my music’), Lang Lang’s latest branding exercise concerns piano education. The Lang...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2019
With one possible exception, this is a masterstroke in programming from the Romanian BBC New Generation Artist Andrei Ioniţă but...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2019
Despite his robust discography, this was my introduction to the work of the French Canadian pianist Alain Lefèvre. Titled ‘My...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2019
It is five years since Martin James Bartlett won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, impressing not merely...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2019
The centenary of Mieczysaw Weinberg’s birth augurs a wealth of significant new recordings, one of which is undoubtedly this release...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2019
The Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili, now just into her thirties, is an artist of strong convictions but it is still...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2019
Given the consistent pianistic and stylistic excellence of his Janáček, Scriabin and Messiaen cycles and stimulating Chopin Ballades (9/15), Håkon...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2019
Boris Giltburg continues his survey of Rachmaninov with the complete Preludes, launching the disc with a refreshingly straight account of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2019
With this release, the young Italian (b1987) becomes only the fourth pianist to have recorded all of Godowsky’s Studies on...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2019
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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