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 sonatas performed on this captivating disc by the cellist Marcy Rosen and pianist Susan Walters came from the minds...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2019
Put simply, Lucas Wong’s piano interpretations of Couperin and Rameau yield nothing to Marcelle Meyer, Alexandre Tharaud or Angela Hewitt...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2019
Celebrating the approach of their 50th anniversary the Fischer Duo – Norman Fischer and his wife Jeanne Kierman – unfold...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2019
Let me introduce you to Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev, a young Russian pianist of whom you will probably not have heard unless...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2019
The programme is an interesting – indeed, unique – collection of more or less popular virtuoso encores composed by great...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2019
For his first-ever Schumann recital, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has put together an intriguing programme, one in which he by no means...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2019
It seems everything needs a theme these days, so here we have from Alexander Lonquich Schubert’s last piano works in...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2019
The third ‘year’ of Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage is something of a connoisseur’s collection, containing as it does only one...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2019
Roman Rabinovich was born in 1985 in Tashkent and studied in Israel and at the Juilliard School. He has given...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2019
The success of Philip Glass’s music to Stephen Daldrey’s 2002 film The Hours has spawned several recordings of the piano...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn 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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