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...
Throughout his career, Michele Campanella, the Neapolitan pianist now in his 74th year, has been identified with the music of...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2021
The booklet note for this release points out some interesting things about the trajectory of Handel’s ‘Eight Great’ harpsichord suites...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2021
With Vol 8, Martin Roscoe comes within spitting distance of completing his Beethoven sonata cycle; the ninth and final instalment...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021
The argument behind Hansjörg Albrecht’s latest release of transcriptions of famous orchestral works, which he dedicates to the memory of...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 02/2021
Piotr Anderszewski here poses a most intriguing question: what happens when you take a group of 12 Preludes and Fugues...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2021
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) taught so many composers and musicians that a list of her pupils reads like a who’s who...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2021
If I might indulge myself for a moment, I remember the first time I encountered Stanford’s First String Quintet –...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021
The music of Albanian-born, York-based composer Thomas Simaku (b1958) is something of a well-kept secret, though two discs of his...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2021
Robert Schumann, the American Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winner Caroline Shaw and Shostakovich may not seem obvious string quartet bedfellows,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021
Bertrand Chamayou, whose performances of Saint-Saëns’s Second and Fifth Piano Concertos with the French National Orchestra and Emmanuel Krivine won...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2021
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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