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...
Before his flight to Scandinavia during the Bolshevik Revolution, Rachmaninov’s last recitals in Russia included some of the Op 39...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2018
‘I wanted my interpretation of these seminal works to sound fresh and different’, says LSO Leader Roman Simovic in the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2018
This is the stunning debut recording of Leonardo Pierdomenico, a 25-year-old native of Pescara in the Abbruzzo region of Italy...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2018
The more I continued listening to this recital, the more I felt that it was one of the finest all-Liszt...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2018
Like David Greilsammer’s inspired piano pairing of Scarlatti and Cage (Sony, 6/14), this disc from rising French harpsichordist Justin Taylor...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2018
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s series of Haydn’s piano sonatas reaches Vol 7, borne aloft by the momentum of almost unanimously laudatory reviews...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2018
If you didn’t know that Hasse wrote music for the lute, don’t be hard on yourself. I didn’t either; but...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2018
Thirty years ago, when only a handful of Godowsky’s compositions (originals and arrangements) were available or recorded, one would have...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2018
When it comes to Schubert and Chopin, who died in their thirties, the concept of ‘late works’ is somewhat curious....
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2018
The nicely chosen image on the front cover shows a nude, elderly woman, depicted from the back, gazing as if...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2018
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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