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...
Time was when the French, with their love of understatement, stylistic elegance and clarity, looked askance at the Russian repertoire,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2012
Here, at last, is a recording of a significant portion of the Manchester Gamba Book, said to be the largest...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2012
Until four years ago, only a handful of the more than 130 works Raff composed for solo piano were readily...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2012
This is a disc of paradoxes. The Armenian-born pianist Nareh Arghamanyan clearly experiences Rachmaninov’s music intensely. You can see as...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2012
Nonclassical continues its exploration of an alternative modern classicism with Gabriel Prokofiev’s Cello Multitracks – a dance suite for cello...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 10/2012
It was Louis Marchand who fled the abortive 1717 keyboard duel with Bach in Dresden. If contemporary accounts hold water...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 10/2012
Once spotlit after a dramatic move from Russia to America, Vladimir Feltsman quietly stepped out of the limelight to enjoy...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2012
Francesco Tristano is a young pianist-composer born in Luxembourg who is making an international stir as a personality with his...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/2012
A fascinating programme, in which the two more modern works have strong Bachian connections. Ysaÿe’s Second Sonata begins with a...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2012
No sooner had I completed a Gramophone Collection on Iberia (6/12), finally celebrating the stature of four Spanish pianists in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2012
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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