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...
In what looks like the continuation of a complete Debussy cycle (Craig Sheppard has already recorded the Préludes), the second...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2014
One could quite easily listen to this beautifully recorded disc simply as one which alternates short works by Chopin with...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2014
Not every track on these three CDs is perfection but they proclaim an artist of exceptional calibre establishing a position...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 02/2014
Is this the start of a recording age when non-organists are being challenged to hear Bach’s organ music afresh? Robert...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2014
Bach himself wrote that his Two- and Three-Part Inventions were meant, among other things, to foster ‘a cantabile style in...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2014
Mahan Esfahani’s debut recital recording commemorates the tercentenary of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714 88), whose collection of six sonatas...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2014
The title of this disc, ‘Transfigurations’, is an umbrella for Les Esprits Animaux’s latest journey into the musical past, although...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 02/2014
A fascinating, satisfying programme, bringing together three composers whose work is rooted in their local cultures, absorbed to form highly...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2014
This is not the first time that works by Michael Berkeley, John McCabe and Adrian Williams have rubbed shoulders together...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2014
‘Green’ is the final volume in a three-disc series by the Amaryllis Quartet that combines contemporary works for string quartet...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2014
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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