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...
Finally the perfect illustration of what my Ukrainian teacher used to require for playing quiet passages: as if walking through...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2018
Finally the perfect illustration of what my Ukrainian teacher used to require for playing quiet passages: as if walking through...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2018
In his booklet notes, Kenneth Hamilton expresses a deep-rooted interest in Romantic performance traditions that purport to inform his Chopin...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2018
The Andsnes brand comes with a number of cast-iron guarantees: superior clarity, strength and facility without showing off, superb grasp...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2018
In some quarters it has now become distinctly unfashionable to even consider recording Bach’s organ music on instruments which don’t...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2018
Not exactly being a fan of Philip Glass’s music, this is the first time I’ve encountered Víkingur Ólafsson on disc,...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2018
String ensembles are hardly a new venture, yet 12 Ensemble already have a distinctive profile in terms of their spare...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2018
I believe this is the Piatti Quartet’s first full ‘unaccompanied’ release. They collaborated with Gottlieb Wallisch on a disc of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018
Hard on the heels of LSO Live’s austere English-language Soldier’s Tale comes this version in the original French from Harmonia...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018
‘Immer zu! Ohne Rast und Ruh’ – ‘Ever onwards, without respite’: these words from Schubert’s turbulent Goethe setting ‘Rastlose Liebe’...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore 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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