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 qualities that have distinguished Jonathan Plowright’s Brahms series for BIS since its beginning in 2013 – keen intelligence, thoughtful interpretations...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2017
Beethoven’s chaconne-like 32 Variations in C minor and Nielsen’s Op 32 Chaconne make for interesting bedfellows. But how do these single-minded structures relate...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017
When in the foothills of a grand Bach project, selection of works can have a significant bearing on the balance and shape...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2017
After mixed recitals featuring Chopin (with whom she has been associated since winning the 2010 Chopin Competition), Yulianna Avdeeva now turns her...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2017
The Marian Consort made its debut recording for the Delphian label in 2011 with an acclaimed programme of ‘Music of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2017
Two sets of Lamentations and a penitential cantata bring plenty of darkness to this disc of sacred works from 18th-century Naples....
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2017
This latest exploration of Buxtehude and his circle from Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices is a joyful, festive...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2017
The great French singer-songwriter Barbara died 20 years ago this November at the age of 67. Alexandre Tharaud, then in his late...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2017
While Christian Gerhaher’s 2003 recording of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin doesn’t have English translations of the poem texts (RCA, 2/04),...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2017
The third volume of Ian Bostridge’s leisurely Schubert series for Wigmore Hall Live is devoted to songs dealing with longing – urgent,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
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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