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...
A personal note: I heard bits and pieces of Frederic Rzewski’s Songs of Insurrection in progress while the composer was...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021
For me the litmus test with any recording of Paganini’s mighty ‘24’ is the ‘Trill’ Caprice (No 6), where a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2021
A pianist colleague likened the young Andrei Gavrilov’s fire-eating virtuosity to a state-of-the-art BMW without the driver. It’s true that...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021
An ideal Liszt Sonata performance requires transcendental virtuosity, prodigious colouristic resources, a sense of drama and narrative flow and a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021
This recording arrived at the close of Beethoven’s anniversary year and features an unusual partnering of a piano sonata and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2021
A cursory glance at a couple of catalogues purportedly maintaining lists of commercially available recordings reveals some 42 pianists, living...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2021
Chiyan Wong, the Hong Kong-born pianist who turns 33 this year, is an instrumentalist of truly remarkable gifts. Most striking...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2021
With his fourth volume devoted to the complete keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Benjamin Alard reaches the middle to...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 03/2021
‘They are full of invention, fire, good taste and new effects,’ wrote Charles Burney upon hearing Haydn’s Op 76 Quartets...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2021
The piano trio genre seems to have inspired new generations of American composers over the past few decades, and not...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2021
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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