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...
Godowsky’s 53 Studies on Chopin’s Études (or 54 or 55 depending on whether you include different ossias in numbering them) present a formidable challenge...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW17
From listening to the Brandenburg Concertos in his father’s record store as a young boy to strict lessons in fugal counterpoint...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW17
In a charmingly self-effacing booklet note, Michel Dalberto relates how his embrace of Fauré’s piano music, despite an early affinity for...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW17
While the works chosen for this Chopin recital are programmed to ensure maximum contrast of mood and emotion, a unified trajectory nevertheless...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17
A native of St Petersburg, Varvara Tarasova studied at the Moscow Conservatory and, more recently, at London’s Royal College. She took...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW17
The late Zoltán Kocsis was among the first pianists to stress the musical value of Bartók’s collection For Children over...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW17
Forget new complexity: some of the music on flautist Richard Craig’s second Métier disc might simply be called post-everything. When...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: AW17
The appeal here, quite aside from some excellent playing, is in the way the programme has been planned. My personal preference with...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW17
A contemporary of Tallis and Sheppard, Christopher Tye was a composer apart. His ear for harmony, his eye for a musical line, seem to...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW17
Two gentle miniatures programmed here are surely among the most carefree and seductive that Stravinsky ever composed, the ‘Russian Maiden’s...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW17
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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