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...
Here we have the seventh commercially released recording of Ronald Stevenson’s 1962 Passacaglia on DSCH, based on the four-note D-E...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2014
With this programme, where concentrated lyricism is sandwiched between two storming masterpieces, Konstanze Eickhorst makes her bid as an inclusive...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014
Compared to the full-bodied sound of Lisitsa’s Liszt recital (reviewed above), Garrick Ohlsson’s is ‘cabined, cribbed, confined’ – not unappealing...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2014
One could hardly guess from the demure pose struck by Decca’s photogenic soloist for her CD’s booklet that she can...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2014
Given that Franck pioneered the concept of the orchestral organ, and with his Grand Pièce symphonique of 1863 effectively created...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2014
Jean-Philippe Collard was a familiar presence in these pages in the 1970s and ’80s, less so in the succeeding years....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2014
Exquisite in taste is the slow movement of Op 22, a beautifully paced Adagio, in the hands of Angela Hewitt....
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2014
Nonclassical continues to go where other alternative labels fear to tread with this release by House of Bedlam – the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2014
This is a most delightful recital of early-18th-century French Baroque chamber music. The works have been carefully chosen and comprise...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 01/2014
I’m confused. The back of the booklet for this CD lists the Frank Bridge Lament as having the catalogue number...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2014
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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