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...
'Yet another disc of Glass piano music,’ I hear you say; but before you start scanning the other columns on...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2015
Another Chopin recital, a recording debut, and another gifted young Pole. Marek Bracha, fresh from his studies in Warsaw and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2015
Alessandro Marangoni follows his disc of the two piano concertos (9/12) with a first complete recording of Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Evangélion (‘The...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2015
Volume 4 in Barry Douglas’s Brahms cycle-in-progress mixes and matches short pieces culled from various opus number groups with three...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2015
The Beethoven sonata cycle that Jonathan Biss launched on Avie now reaches its halfway mark via Meyer Media with Vol...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2015
Vol 4 of Vincenzo Maltempo’s Alkan consists of works which he considers better suited to his 1899 Erard instrument than...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2015
Kalevi Aho may not be as well known for his solo music as for his orchestral but he makes his...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2015
Since winning the Kathleen Ferrier Award in 2011, mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately has been gradually building her reputation in both concert...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2015
The reign of Rudolf II (1576-1611) marked the zenith of Prague as an imperial capital. But whereas Rudolf’s patronage of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2015
Sunhae Im, the Korean soprano familiar from her contributions to René Jacobs’s recordings of Mozart operas, here turns to concert...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2015
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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