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...
From the Goldenweiser and Bashkirov stable, and a rare bird in the concert hall, Nelly Akopian-Tamarina carries the kind of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2021
Whether or not Daniel-Ben Pienaar intends for you to proceed through his Schubert sonata cycle’s five discs in sucession, the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2021
Jacob Heringman issued his first disc of Josquin intabulations back in 2003 and he has since included Josquin intabulations on...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2021
Leon McCawley’s Haydn series on Somm, begun in 2016, has reached its third instalment with six sonatas dating from 1767-84....
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2021
How refreshing to have Iran and Iranians associated with something other than negative news. (Persian is actually an exonym –...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2021
The British-Turkish pianist Lara Melda first came to prominence as Lara Melda Ömerog˘lu when she won the BBC Young Musician...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2021
From Behzod Abduraimov’s recent Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody on the Russian composer’s own piano (Sony, 5/20), it was clear that this...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2021
I don’t know the genesis of this recording. Sometimes a label like Hyperion will find some interesting and/or unfamiliar repertoire...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2021
It has been a good few years since Nikolai Lugansky last released any Beethoven and he avoids the usual last...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2021
Harpsichordist, organist and conductor Francesco Corti is a native of Arezzo and now teaches at the Basel Schola Cantorum. Despite...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2021
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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