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...
Julien Brocal, a young French composer and pianist born in Arles, has studied with Erick Berchot and Rena Shereshevskaya at...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2018
Paul Lewis has finally turned his attention to Haydn. Hurray for that, for it’s a superb fit; it’s also clear...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2018
The charming little Andantino, Franck’s first published organ work dating back to 1858, gets rather overlooked in recordings of his...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2018
With a recent live recording of Dohnányi’s Second Piano Concerto (HD Klassik) also to her name, Russian-born Sofja Gülbadamova here...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2018
Many pianists interpret Debussy’s ‘Danseuses de Delphes’ with steady, stately and often placid calm. Not Menahem Pressler. He takes Debussy’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2018
The eminent French harpsichordist Blandine Verlet has again returned to Couperin, a composer with whom she has been intimately associated...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 05/2018
‘I never learned anything from Haydn’, claimed Beethoven about his erstwhile composition teacher, yet Olivier Cavé’s programme, interspersing sonatas by...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2018
We reach the seventh volume of Jonathan Biss’s thought-provoking Beethoven sonata cycle. The pieces on this disc seem to suit...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2018
Four Bach works alternate with five of Thomas Ospital’s own improvisations and a set of six Études-Chorals by Thierry Escaich....
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2018
Orlando Cela brings an adventurer’s spirit to ‘Shadow Etchings’, his disc of new music for flute. Each work requires the...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg 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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