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 aesthetic and technical demands of Debussy’s Études and Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit represent a badge of honour, even...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2019
A new recording by Ashkenazy as pianist is always newsworthy; but the real (re-)discovery here is his account of the...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2019
During the past two seasons, Pollini has toured with programmes that devoted ample space to Chopin. His victory at the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2019
Contrary to what you might think, there have been several CDs devoted entirely to the piano music of Cécile Chaminade....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2019
The pianists write in their booklet accompanying this release that Jean-François Heisser made this transcription over 30 years ago. It...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2019
This is – in the best possible sense – a high-calorie recital, and I wonder if the way it’s presented...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2019
Nordic Affect are a pioneering group of Icelandic women period-performance musicians with a keen interest in women composers, contemporary and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2019
What a fascinating, beautiful disc. Rachel Barton Pine has borrowed the name from the four Blues Dialogues for unaccompanied violin...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2019
Astor Piazzolla formed his first quintet in 1960, adding piano, guitar, violin and double bass to his bandoneón. It disbanded...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2019
Brahms, Schumann …it’s been too easy, over the long years of its relative neglect, to reach for obvious comparisons when...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby 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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