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...
After elongating the opening bars of the Grave introduction of Chopin’s B flat minor Sonata, Beatrice Rana launches into the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024
This is an all-round stunning recording that has me desperately holding out for a ‘Plucked Bach III’. With the first...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2024
Anglo-Italian harpsichordist Giulia Nuti has a longish discography as a lively and quick-fingered continuo player but this is only her...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2024
Pianist Polina Leschenko’s contribution to the booklet of this new album with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Reto Bieri is an essay...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2024
Take note of the cover artwork to Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman’s ‘Path to the Moon’, because its...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2024
An enthralling programme that stretches the idea of musical fantasy from the shorter of Schubert’s two great, late chamber works...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2024
So far as the Shostakovich Trios are concerned, Korobeinikov, Gluzman and Moser enter a well-populated field but still manage to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2024
As pairings of composers go, there is a lot to commend Schubert and Weinberg. Apart from Schubert being one of...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2024
This attractive CD is a fresh look at some of Prokofiev’s chamber repertoire, although I wondered whether ‘milestones’ is the...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 03/2024
This disc completes the suites ‘for My Cousin Kemble’ begun on Phantasm’s previous Matthew Locke recording (11/18) and twins them...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2024
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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