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...
Pianists who record Chopin’s Nocturnes usually sequence the works by opus number. Ingrid Fliter differs from most by devising a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2018
Alexandre Tharaud is a musician of wide interests, as compelling in the Baroque as he is delightful in a favourite...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2018
No doubts about the qualifications of Ravel’s Gaspard for a disc entitled ‘Of the Night’. But only three of Schumann’s...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2018
Alexandra Papastefanou first came to my attention via a mesmerising performance of Dimitri Mitropoulos’s rarely heard Piano Sonata but her...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2018
Performing Bach’s Cello Suites in a transcription for viola is nothing new. Among other viola versions that I have to...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2018
Having safely passed the halfway point of his 15-disc traversal of the complete Bach organ works for Signum Classics, David...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2018
There is already a rich catalogue...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2018
Collectors certainly wanted more than Decca could provide of this year’s centenarian Birgit Nilsson, an undoubted recording star of the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2018
In Barrie Kosky’s spirited but uneven 2017 staging of Wagner’s comedy there are splurges of ideas. The performance emerges from...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2018
The ancient Roman city of Palmyra has been a good deal in the news this past decade. And so, curiously,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2018
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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