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...
To pay tribute to ex-Spitafields Festival director Judith Serota, 11 composers each contributed a short ‘reflection’ based on JS Bach’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2012
In his booklet-note, legendary classical guitarist Pepe Romero, member of that great ‘first’ family of guitarists The Romeros, tells of...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2012
Nelson Freire, imperceptibly assuming the mantle of the piano’s elder statesman, is now in his late sixties. There are few...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2012
It so happened that I set about reviewing this DVD during the first week of the Paralympics. The sight of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2012
Spohr’s symphonies – all recorded by Howard Shelley, incidentally, in his alter ego as conductor – Nonet, Octet and clarinet...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2012
Christa Landon’s numbering of the sonatas to 62 in the Wiener Urtext edition is followed, though Georg Feder (The New...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2012
Martin Jones is one of Britain’s most-recorded pianist, with complete sets of Mendelssohn and Brahms (to name but two) offset...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2012
Andrea Bacchetti takes an unashamedly pianistic approach to Bach – and there’s nothing wrong with that. Thus he’s not afraid...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012
‘Silfra’, described in Hilary Hahn and Volker Bertelmann’s booklet-notes as ‘the culmination of a two-year exploratory improvisation project’, serves up...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 10/2012
Any release spunky enough to embrace Ligeti’s and Finnissy’s Second Quartets – not to mention Stravinsky’s Three Pieces and Lutosławski’s...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark 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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