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 meaning of the title escapes me; the booklet contends that ‘[Paganini] served his daemon with commitment and dedication’. Both...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2011
Edition Laura’s clumsy booklet-note may gorge on hard-sell schlock – ‘the tension [in Mahler’s Ninth Symphony] between the single creative...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2011
Here, in a magisterial contribution to this celebratory year, is a pianist born for Liszt’s rhetorical grandeur. All these performances,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2011
‘Greater than Horowitz, he combines the precision of a metronome with the electrical discharge of a thunderstorm.’ Such was the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2011
When a star such as Hilary Hahn takes on the Ives violin-and-piano sonatas it has to be special. These four...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2011
Pupil, friend and protégé of Beethoven and teacher of Liszt, Czerny composed more than a thousand compositions that have, sadly,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2011
What a stimulating assemblage of arias, and in intelligent, standard-setting performances. Soprano Chen Reiss creates a rewarding vocal cross section...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2011
Finely adorned with Rubens’s study of King David with his harp, this release focuses on 17th-century north German psalm-settings for...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2011
The Modena Consort basically comprises four players of Renaissance flute. Not, on the face of it, a very promising ensemble...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2011
With the year drawing to a close, at last there comes a project worthy in scope of one of the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue:
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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