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 most appealing thing about this disc is its title. Unfortunately that title conceals a misunderstanding. The consonance on display...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2016
Why review an album of Beatles songs in Gramophone? This magazine has some history with the Sixties band, having reviewed...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2016
Domenico Zipoli was born in Italy three years after Bach, dying at just 37 in Argentina. If he’s best remembered...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2016
In her poetic booklet-notes, Frederieke Saeijs emphasises her affinity with Ysaÿe’s unaccompanied Violin Sonatas. ‘I grew up in The Hague,...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 03/2016
Tchaikovsky’s opulent G major Sonata has all too often been seen as inflated and over-long. But in the right hands...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2016
I didn’t manage to catch Vol 1 of Jan Vermeulen and Veerle Peeters’s Schubert duets series, nor have I heard...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2016
The sensitivity, tonal refinement and occasional micromanagement typifying Amir Katz’s Chopin Nocturnes, Ballades and Impromptus (Oehms) and Mendelssohn Songs Without...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2016
Of all the ill-advised and inappropriate strategies to deploy when performing the solo piano music of Erik Satie, pretending that...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2016
One of Sviatoslav Richter’s great attributes as a Rachmaninov player was his ability to pick and choose among the compositions,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2016
There has been a resurgence of interest in Antoine Mariotte of late thanks to the revival, in 2014, of his...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley 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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