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...
These DVDs illustrate operatic reversals of fortune in complementary ways that seem almost too neat to be coincidental. The Rape...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2014
‘Splinters’ couldn’t be more appropriate a name for pianist Mariann Marczi’s collection of Hungarian piano pieces that are generally thorny,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2014
Jill Crossland opens with a generally sensitive account of Mozart’s D minor Fantasia, marred only by her impatient ploughing through...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2014
Here is that ideal post Christmas present – a box of delights if ever there was one. APR’s two-disc album...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2014
Janina Fialkowska has a palpable vision of how these two different sonatas should work, making them very much her own....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2014
If razor-sharp definition (vif and clarté are central to many French pianists’ musical philosophy) were ultimate virtues in Ravel, then...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2014
John Ogdon’s legendary 1979 Indiana University recital was originally announced for release in 1998 on two LPs (Recherché 1004). They...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2014
After due reflection, I think this is one of the greatest discs of Liszt’s opera paraphrases I have ever heard....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2014
No doubt that Gramophone readers will respond to the name Julius Isserlis by asking, ‘any relation to the cellist?’ Indeed,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2014
Interviewed on the Another Timbre website, the forty-something British composer Bryn Harrison struggles manfully to put convincing blue water between...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2014
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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