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...
With this recording of the complete harpsichord works of Louis Couperin, we can safely retire the usual introduction to the...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: AW23
For the English organist and composer Percy Whitlock, most of life’s troubles could easily be countered by ‘a long walk...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW23
Víkingur Ólafsson plays the opening Aria of the Goldberg Variations as a straightforward sarabande, giving no hint of his brisk...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW23
The performance of Bach’s Cello Suites is often surrounded by subtexts that prepare the way for the listening experience, whether...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW23
How savvy to begin a programme of Spanish piano trio works with Enrique Arbós’s Three Pieces, Op 1, particularly with...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW23
Here’s a neat concept for an album; and unlike many others, it doesn’t over-determine an understanding of the music. Instead...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: AW23
André Lislevand’s name will most probably be new to at least the majority of Gramophone readers, but if you’re remotely...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW23
'The Bohemians are remarkably expert in the use of wind instruments’, wrote dear old Dr Burney, and naturally enough he’s...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW23
Djuro Živković, born in Serbia in 1975 but long resident in Sweden, has had a meteoric career, the most visible...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW23
It’s not really fair to try and appraise an unfamiliar composer’s voice from a single selection of their works. So...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW23
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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