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’s not unusual for pianists more associated with later, large-scale virtuoso music to reach a rapprochement with Mozart. Jean Muller...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2019
A set of fearsomely demanding concert études, a neo-Gothic exuberant Passacaglia, a Baroque-meets-Romantic suite and a Lisztian cycle of character...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2019
The back cover of this disc states that, since his victory in the first-ever Leeds International Piano Competition in 1963...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2019
Somehow it was a while since I had heard the Op 119 Bagatelles, and I’m grateful to Imogen Cooper for...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2019
Yevgeny Sudbin is not an artist to go into the studio lightly and it’s a bold move to choose as...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2019
First recordings of two sets of piano pieces by Arnold Bax and Harriet Cohen (his charismatic muse and lover) adorn...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2019
Here is a welcome addition to the Bach discography, with the chance to appreciate the awesome compositional skills on display...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 04/2019
The main connecting thread – one of several – linking the four works in this engaging French recital for alto...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019
Beethoven wrote his Horn Sonata for the travelling virtuoso Giovanni Punto at such speed that, on the night of the...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2019
I agree with the business consultant Larry Alton when he describes the Chiller font as a ‘good choice for a...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2019
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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