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...
Now based in Amsterdam, Nino Gvetadze was born in Tbilisi and trained in her native Georgia before continuing her studies...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2020
This is Can Çakmur’s second album for BIS. The 23-year-old Turkish pianist’s first, which included works by Beethoven-Liszt, Schubert, Haydn,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2020
I feel sure that Gabriel Schwabe has the chops and musical intellect to give a great performance of Kodály’s Solo...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2020
The past quarter of a century has brought steady reappraisal of George Dyson (1883-1964), and while an extensive choral output...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2020
Armand-Louis Couperin was not the nephew of François Couperin, as is sometimes asserted in both historic and contemporary accounts of...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 12/2020
A decade after the start of his Chopin series, for its sixth volume Louis Lortie offers another carefully arranged bouquet,...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2020
So the journey ends. A project that began back in 1994 has finally reached its conclusion with this sixth volume....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2020
It was in 2009 that Tabea Zimmermann released the first two of Bach’s Solo Cello Suites alongside Reger’s three on...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2020
When Beethoven decided in 1795 to announce himself to his adopted Vienna as a published composer, it was not with...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2020
There’s every likelihood, were it not for his being highlighted as Gramophone’s One to Watch in the November issue, that...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2020
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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