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...
‘Tchaikovsky Plus One’ is the first of a new series in which Barry Douglas pairs some of Tchaikovsky’s principal works...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2018
Messiaen’s nine-movement reflection on the birth of Christ has long earned its place as one of the great classics for...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2018
The latest instalment in Naxos’s series of Liszt’s piano music contains early or otherwise unfamiliar versions of a several quite...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2018
Wilhelm Backhaus’s Chopin Études, Opp 10 and 25 from 1928, were the first to be recorded as a complete set...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2018
That Charles Owen has thought deeply about Brahms before committing the late music to disc is obvious from his conversation...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2018
Martin Roscoe began his traversal of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas in 2010, billed as the first complete recording of the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2018
Franziska Pietsch truly takes ownership of Bartók’s Solo Sonata. Her interpretation is prompted by the idea of his ‘explosive seriousness’,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2018
I can already hear the sighs from Kiev at seeing Victor Kosenko, born and educated in St Petersburg but thereafter...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2018
Now here’s a striking debut. The young Franco-Danish soprano Elsa Dreisig consolidated her 2016 Operalia win by becoming a company...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2018
Things bode well when you shout ‘Bravo!’ at the hi fi speakers at the end of the first track. Javier...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2018
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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