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...
Antje Weithaas and Silke Avenhaus make a real duo partnership. It’s obvious they’ve worked in a detailed way at these...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 08/2011
Historic indeed: the Op 5 pair (1796) appear to be the first cello sonatas with a written-out piano part. But...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue:
Some piano recital discs send you scuttling to the score to check whether the composer really did write what you’ve...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2011
Both these discs (previously unissued in the UK) were made long before Thibaudet’s years at Decca, and the Liszt in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2011
Behold Paul Lewis, a sensitive, cultured and relatively young pianist, determined to thoroughly plot out Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations with methodical,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 8/2011
Sebastian Stanley is a young English pianist of Spanish origin who suitably entitles his programme El amor y la muerte,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2011
Hailed for the unlikely feat of putting the “sex into Sussex” after her charismatic Cleopatra for the Glyndebourne Festival, Danielle...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2011
Never one to understate a case, Wolf dubbed his Italian Songbook “the most original and artistically perfect of all my...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2011
Preferences for Mozart’s ever-beguiling Requiem are now as often based on the edition used as on the performers or performance...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2011
Here Joseph Calleja has decisively entered the Three Tenors zone – and I wish he’d waited a few more years....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2011
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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