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 death of William Kapell (1922 53) at the age of 31 in a plane crash robbed the world of...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017
A rare beast inside the world of German modern composition – a composer whose aesthetic spills out of John Cage...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2017
A quarter of a century has passed since Paul Derrett’s pioneering survey of Guy Weitz’s organ music, recorded in Hereford...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2017
Around the same time (1945 46) that Vaughan Williams was collaborating with Joseph Cooper on the two-piano transcription of his...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
Around the same time (1945 46) that Vaughan Williams was collaborating with Joseph Cooper on the two-piano transcription of his...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
Much of Garrick Ohlsson’s Scriabin sonata cycle is remarkably literal, maybe shockingly so. It’s as if the pianist were determined...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017
After launching his Schubert cycle in bold fashion with the final sonata, D960, Barry Douglas continues with two other works...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2017
The statistics are impressive. Seventeen CDs (one of which is given over to a conversation – entirely in German –...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 03/2017
Mendelssohn’s Organ Sonatas, Op 65, date from the last part of his truncated career (1844) and were commissioned by the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2017
Even today Liszt remains seriously underestimated as a song composer. Like his adored Schubert, simple lyrics of scant significance could...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2017
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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