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...
There’s no getting away from the fact that an entire album of wall-to-wall Offenbachian coloratura, a festival of the chanteuse...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2019
Today, when Liszt’s 12 Études d’exécution transcendante seem almost a part of the landscape, with a couple of new recordings...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2019
There’s a strange feeling of something like alienation or distance at the outset of Kristian Bezuidenhout’s Haydn recital. Perhaps it’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2019
For a neglected Romantic violin sonata, being recorded by Tasmin Little and John Lenehan must feel like going to heaven....
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2019
Mitsuko Uchida’s previous recording of the Beethoven piano concertos, with Kurt Sanderling and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Philips, 5/96,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2019
Were I to append a subtitle to this memorable album it would be ‘the art of the bow’, the reason...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2019
‘Olli and I find it quite masterly – and addictive’, Steven Isserlis writes in a booklet note on Kabalevsky’s Cello...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2019
Few of the concertante works premiered by Mstislav Rostropovich enjoy repertoire status. Among them, the concertos by Lutosławski and Dutilleux...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2019
Any fan of Lieder will have rubbed their hands with anticipation when it was revealed a couple of years ago...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2019
The heart might justifiably sink at the prospect of a classical star releasing an album that concludes with ‘Climb ev’ry...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2019
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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