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...
Vol 1 of Mendelssohn’s complete solo piano music (the first of a six-CD series) is launched with all of Howard...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2013
Barry Douglas’s second volume of his projected complete Brahms cycle benefits, like the first (6/12), from an engaging programme. Instead...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2013
Alessio Bax is living and urgently needed proof that competition triumphs are still meaningful; something to associate with playing of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2013
Pianist Yundi has made recordings over the past dozen years ranging from exciting and incisive (the Chopin Scherzos and the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2013
In 2000 BBC Legends released Sviatoslav Richter’s all-Beethoven recital of June 11, 1975, from the Aldeburgh Festival featuring three Bagatelles...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2013
When Gunar Letzbor plays the opening chord of the First Sonata, he stretches it out so far that you could...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2013
This recording of Bach’s first published keyboard collection was decades in the making, delayed by harpsichordist and conductor Ton Koopman’s...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 05/2013
Tine Thing Helseth’s playing is stylish in every way and there is ready virtuosity when required. She immediately finds character...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 05/2013
Manchester-based Richard Whalley has built up a notable catalogue over two decades, with the calibre of performers on this first...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue:
The tightly worked counterpoint in the second movement of the B flat Piano Quartet exposes Saint-Saëns’s learned side but he...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2013
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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