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 premiere of Belisario took place at La Fenice, Venice, in 1836. The libretto was by Salvadore Cammarano, with whom...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2013
Sofya Gulyak, who has won first prizes in many competitions, including both the William Kapell in Maryland and the Leeds,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2013
In the early 1960s the great Italian virtuoso Fernando Germani recorded three LPs for HMV at Selby Abbey. They became...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 12/2013
The choral music of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford has not so much remained in the repertoire of British cathedral and...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2013
Uchida and Schumann are a wonderful match: she conveys his febrile qualities with such naturalness, as was vividly demonstrated in...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2013
Cordelia Williams was winner of the keyboard final of the 2006 BBC Young Musician of the Year, a competition that,...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2013
If we agree that mastering and then recording the Paganini Caprices is the violinist’s version of climbing Everest, and acknowledge...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2013
The first four Ws (Who, What, Where, When) seemed clear-cut: Christian Blackshaw plays Mozart sonatas at Wigmore Hall in 2012....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2013
Following his earlier Delphian disc of the B minor Sonata (A/07), David Wilde continues with Liszt, complementing the first Mephisto...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2013
Gramophone readers may have listened to a piece of music and experienced ‘love at first hearing’. Other works might need...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 12/2013
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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