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...
Nino Gvetadze, a new name to me, is a Georgian pianist (b1981, Tbilisi) who makes her home in Amsterdam. Chopin...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2018
In a decade of particularly fine recordings of the Chopin Mazurkas, Eugène Mursky’s set of 57 can more than hold...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2018
No sooner does Alpha release Filippo Gorini’s solo debut CD featuring Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations than the same label issues another...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2018
This is solid, heavy, monumental Bach. The Hungarian organist Joseph Kelemen adds weight to this programme of Bach works which...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2018
Given Fred Thomas’s multifaceted talents as a genre- and boundary-blurring composer and improviser, one would expect his first all-Bach solo...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2018
In Echo have been assembled by cornettist Gawain Glenton from mainstays of the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Florilegium, Fretwork,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2018
You can tell a great deal about performance quality from one crucial consideration: timing. In the context of Schubert’s Arpeggione...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2018
The main novelty here is Martin Butler’s Barlow Dale: Four Characteristic Pieces, written in 1977 when the composer was just...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2018
Not all the members of the Zurich-based Stradivari Quartet play instruments made by the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari. Sebastian Bohren...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2018
From the funky maracas in Four Organs to the famous pulsing chords that are heard at the beginning of Music...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn 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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