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...
The latest release of Sergio Tiempo, the Caracas-born pianist of impeccable credentials, is titled ‘Legacy’. His personal programme, inspired by...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018
Alexander Melnikov’s new release of Schubert, Chopin, Liszt and Stravinsky is eloquent testimony to the insights possible through the use...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018
Recorded in Berlin’s Jesus-Christus-Kirche, and with a programme juxtaposing older with newer solo violin repertoire, this latest recital disc from...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2018
The name of Nikolai Lugansky has become inextricably associated with the music of Rachmaninov and it’s not difficult to understand...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2018
Messiaen’s birds have, it seems, been tamed: at least to the extent that there are something like a dozen versions...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2018
The young Polish pianist Aleksandra Mikulska has studied in Karlsruhe, at the International Piano Academy of Imola and with Arie...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018
First, some title disambiguation. The ‘original versions’ of Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos 12 17 recorded here are six of the Magyar...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018
Behold Debussy’s La mer and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring: two landmark 20th-century scores that changed the veneer of orchestration,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2018
Célimène Daudet is a sensitive and evocative French pianist, trained at the conservatoires of Aix-en-Provence, Lyon and Paris, with a...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018
For his latest Hyperion release, the immensely talented Pavel Kolesnikov has taken up an extraordinarily daunting challenge. In his decision...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018
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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