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...
In the March 2017 issue it was a pleasure to give a warm welcome to a recital from this husband-and-wife...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2018
Listening to some of the more self-indulgent of Liszt’s transcriptions of Schubert’s most profound songs on this disc, I cannot...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2019
For this disc, recorded in Vienna in 2013, Carlo Grante chose a superbly maintained 1923 Bösendorfer Imperial, loaned by Eva...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2019
These two anthologies of Szymanowski’s and Paderewski’s piano music arrived just in time for the centenary of Poland’s independence, celebrated...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2019
First impressions: a Liszt Sonata running to 33'19" – a bit on the slow side. Likewise Kinderszenen at 21'30". And...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2019
In the booklet interview, Vanessa Wagner says that she long avoided Liszt for, among other things, his extroversion, brilliance and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2019
When most recorded versions of Franck’s organ music cover two discs, we might question why Ben van Oosten takes four....
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2018
With this two-disc set, Bertrand Cuiller launches a new complete cycle of the solo harpsichord works of François Couperin that...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2019
Garrick Ohlsson begins his new disc of late Brahms with the mighty Op 116 pieces, and in a sense his...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2019
This recording combines two live performances by Till Fellner: the Swiss Année in the Great Hall of the Vienna Musikverein...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2019
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
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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