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...
The British pianist Sarah Beth Briggs bookends her recital with Schumann, launching the disc with Papillons and ending with Kinderszenen....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2019
The young Bonn native Fabian Müller has captured laurels at competitions in Frankfurt, Bolzano and Munich. His debut recording, which...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2019
Listening to Alexei Kornienko play Bach is like stumbling into a time warp. His hyper-romanticised approach, uprooted from cultural and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2019
Jiří Bárta is his own closest rival here, his earlier Supraphon recording vying with this Animal Music remake. The two...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2019
‘Homage to Pablo Casals’ is this disc’s subtitle, and there’s nothing like setting yourself a high standard. It’s a sort...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2019
It’s interesting quite how many recording tributes to the late 19th and early 20th century’s great violinists have been appearing...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2019
Hard on the heels of Nordic Affect’s recording of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s string trio Reflections (2016), in a fascinating mixed programme...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2019
The latter half of the 1960s is often referred to as Stockhausen’s ‘intuitive’ period, when he largely abandoned the systematic...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2019
Collating Shostakovich’s chamber works with piano has been done (surprisingly?) seldom, though the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio tackled most of this repertoire...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2019
This new Delphian release is a welcome tribute to the far-reaching musicianship of Nigel Osborne, who turned 70 last year...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2019
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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