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 familiarity of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice seems to have detracted from recognition of one of the major French operas of...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 04/2013
This performance springs into life from the opening bars. Ian Bostridge is on top form as the Male Chorus, engagingly...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2013
If you are looking for a reaction to Gieseking’s opalescent if often careless magic or to Krystian Zimerman’s crystalline alternative,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2012
Angela Hewitt was widely acclaimed for her recording of Ravel’s solo piano music a few years ago. Debussy, however, is...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012
Debussy may have been a revolutionary but he was also the most deeply introspective of composers. Like Robert Graves in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2012
Go back to Blandine Verlet’s recordings of various Couperin Ordres from the late 1970s and you hear a distinct temperament...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2012
It was just a matter of time before the world’s most popular classical pianist devoted an entire CD to the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2012
David Tudor’s dedication to Cage’s work at a crucial stage from the 1950s can only be described as saintly. He...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2012
Harmonia Mundi must like Beethoven’s piano sonatas. As if Paul Lewis’s complete cycle wasn’t enough, the label now presents Javier...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2012
Having recorded Bach’s core keyboard works during his contract with Decca in the 1980s, András Schiff began revisiting this repertoire...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2012
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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