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...
Haochen Zhang first came to my attention through an excellent selection of live performances from the 2009 International Van Cliburn...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017
Although the American critic BH Haggin erred on the wrong side of history when he called Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017
A critic colleague wrote of a particularly flawless yet featureless interpretation that it had ‘all of the perfection of waxed...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017
Few pianists can claim a more impressive recording debut than Alexander Krichel’s masterful Liszt recital in 2011 (Telos/Profil). It was...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2017
A bit of housekeeping: this disc is of the first concert versions (S137, from 1837) of the monumental Douze Études...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2017
The last time Wojciech Waleczek appeared in these pages was in May 2015, when he and violinist Voytek Proniewcz came...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2017
Since they offer so little opportunity for display, it’s perhaps no surprise that the Mazurkas should be somewhat less favoured...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2017
Pentatone has given Denis Kozhukhin a beautifully warm acoustic for this Brahms recording, setting his performances in the best possible...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017
As Martin Roscoe crosses the halfway point towards completing his Beethoven sonata cycle for Deux-Elles, his poised and scrupulous playing...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017
The number of pianists who have recorded memorable accounts of the Diabelli Variations is surprisingly small. Among long-established classic versions,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2017
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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