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...
Hugo Alfvén regarded his Symphony No 1 (1896) as the first ‘written in the Swedish language’. As vague a concept...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2018
Ondine’s new Bartók CD is an out-and-out winner; but, having in the past praised numerous versions of these two works,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2018
Lars Vogt would seem to have kept the best until last in this series of Beethoven concerto recordings with the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2018
It feels slightly unoriginal to begin a review by quoting that old adage, ‘the best things come to those who...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2018
The Colin Currie Group was formed in 2006 for a Prom that included Steve Reich’s Drumming. If you attended the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2018
The Japanese pianist Ryutaro Suzuki will be 28 this year. Since 2008 he has studied at the Paris Conservatoire, the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2018
For her second recording, the Russian pianist and cellist Elena Gaponenko plays a virtuoso solo piano recital on disc 1...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2018
The London-born pianist James Rhodes has established a strong presence on YouTube and in other media in recent years. His...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2018
The 11th disc in Florian Uhlig’s 15-volume survey of Schumann’s piano music concentrates on works with connections to ETA Hoffmann,...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2018
Barry Douglas continues his Schubert traversal with the most overtly Beethovenian of Schubert sonatas, the C minor, D958, whose muscular...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2018
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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