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...
Saint-Saëns, hailed by Liszt as the greatest organist of his day, wrote comparatively little music for the organ in terms...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2013
Joachim Raff’s journey from humble beginnings to a sky-high reputation was followed by decline and fall. Today, most of his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2013
Rachmaninov’s First Sonata and Variations on a Theme of Chopin provide a welcome change from the more familiar Second Sonata...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2013
After his disc of Rachmaninov’s 24 Preludes (6/09), Steven Osborne moves into rougher Russian waters with Mussorgsky and Prokofiev. And...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2013
Laments 1-4, triste, secreto are Mompou’s descriptions of several pieces from his Impresiones intimas (again, a resonant and revealing title),...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2013
Brautigam is, if not the foremost, certainly the most prolific of today’s fortepiano specialists, with complete cycles of Mozart, Haydn...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2013
This is a most appealing programme, with disc 1 devoted to the four sonatas (five if you include the Sonate...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2013
The first of a projected four-disc set of Medtner’s piano sonatas performed by the Canadian pianist Paul Stewart launches a...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2013
More than four years ago, the EMI marketing people sent me a disc to be released in China of the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2013
A particular coup of this disc is the booklet-note. That may be an odd place for a review to start...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2013
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...
If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.