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...
Here is an unusual proposition. Anna Lucia Richter and her accompanist, Michael Gees, offer a recital of songs by Schumann,...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2016
The temptation for Masaaki Suzuki to regard the four short Masses as a mopping-up exercise after the conclusion of his...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2016
Here’s a good old-fashioned town hall organ recital of the kind that had people queuing round the block in the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2016
Sibelius’s piano music continues to divide opinion, and few commentators, with the notable exception of biographer Erik Tawaststjerna (whose son...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04
Most readers of Gramophone will have heard the name Ricordi, the great Italian music publisher. How many though, I wonder,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2016
This is the second recital disc from the young French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau. The first, a selection of Bach transcriptions,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2016
My introduction to Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) came via the sixth of CPO’s pioneering discs devoted to her music (7/15), featuring...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2016
Liszt’s cycle of 12 studies (his original idea was to write 24 in each of the major and minor keys)...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2016
The Mexican-Lebanese pianist Simon Ghraichy avoids the now routine pairing of the Liszt Sonata with the Schumann Fantasy, substituting instead...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2016
Granados succinctly described his Goyescas suite as a work abounding with ‘great flights of imagination and difficulties’, which, however, have...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2016
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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