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...
Theorbist Marco Horvat and his Ensemble Faenza turn their collective microscope on the obscure mid-18th-century musician Giovanni Zamboni. Possibly Roman...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016
The mezzo-soprano Alice Coote pins her colours to the mast in this recital, subtitled ‘Woman and Man, The Human Soul...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 03/2016
The bar has been set – high – in Schmidt’s great setting of the Apocalypse by Harnoncourt and Kristjan Järvi...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2016
Much of Janáček’s music suggests quick reflexes prodded into spontaneous activity, as in such a work as The Wolf’s Tale...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2016
‘Journey’ may not be the most imaginative of possible titles, but it will do well enough for a recital in...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2016
Bertrand Chamayou from Toulouse has been called a prince of pianists, a hyperbolic claim, some might argue, for a musician...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2016
The common denominator with these two discs is Mussorgsky’s Pictures. Antonii Baryshevskyi then moves on to a sequence of Scriabin....
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2016
Is there another single-disc recording of all five of the complete original pieces composed by Mendelssohn for piano duet and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2016
Brilliant Classics’ two-CD album of Ginastera’s complete piano music, coming so soon after François-Xavier Poizat’s fine selection (Piano Classics, 9/15),...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2016
Personally, I’ve never been convinced that Stravinsky’s transcription of his 1938 chamber-orchestra piece Dumbarton Oaks does his music (as opposed...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2016
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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