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...
Piotr Anderszewski’s last release, a Gramophone Award winner, carefully curated excerpts from Book 2 of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier (2/21). This...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024
The more one listens to Alkan’s music, the more one realises what an extraordinary composer he is. Though the three...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
Less than a decade ago, Croatian composer Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) was such an unknown that Jeremy Nicholas could begin a...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 02/2024
A sepia postcard framing the artists, a red rose lying alongside it, illustrates the booklet of ‘Le temps retrouvé’, a...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2024
London East Ender Lionel Tertis (1876-1975) was one of the most influential viola players of the last century, his sound...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024
Schumann’s was the first great piano quintet, an instrumental combination virtually unknown at the time. Amazingly, the two Schumann masterpieces...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 02/2024
This release isn’t far off being the complete works of the Thuringian composer Andreas Oswald. Born in Weimar in 1634,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2024
Although memorably heartfelt and at times heroic, Felix Mendelssohn’s immensely likeable First Cello Sonata is hardly on a par with...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2024
Mozart, Strauss, 17th-century English madrigals … to say that (our own) Jonathan Freeman-Attwood and Timothy Jones’s series of ‘reimaginings’ of...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2024
This album beautifully showcases exactly the contrasts – the surprising varieties of light and shade – that we expect from...
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 02/2024
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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