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...
This is apparently the debut recording of the remarkable young artist Elisabeth Brauss. Born and trained in Hamburg, Brauss will...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2017
As Lugansky points out in his accompanying essay, Tchaikovsky’s G major Sonata and The Seasons fall under the same opus...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2017
Pierre Hantaï’s discerning and unhurried stroll through selected Scarlatti sonatas (the single-disc series began way back in 1993) here reaches...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2017
For all their teeming surfaces, the Rachmaninov piano sonatas don’t have to be treated as virtuoso demonstration vehicles. Sane, dedicated,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2017
The popularity of Pictures at an Exhibition continues unabated. Over-exposure has almost certainly dulled our ears to the splendours of...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2017
The name of Johann Mattheson (1681-1764) appears frequently in books and articles about Baroque music, though seldom in connection with...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2017
This is Guillaume Bellom’s first solo CD and his debut on Claves. His programme contrasts Classical-era Haydn and Schubert with...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2017
The Chinese-American pianist Claire Huangci has been warmly praised by my colleague Jed Distler (7/15) and it’s easy to understand...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2017
Although Resonus proudly proclaims, more than once, that this two-CD set of organ music by Judith Bingham consists ‘entirely of...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2017
Over the past decade and a half, the Austrian pianist Ingrid Marsoner has released some seven recordings playing, in addition...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2017
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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