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...
This is an album about music and coronavirus. Anna Prohaska, it would seem, had been contemplating a disc of extracts...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2020
How impoverished the organist’s repertory would be without that humble but ever so effective musical form, the Passacaglia. From the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2020
In 1992 Dag Freyer and the late Syrthos J Dreher set out to make a film about Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020
Playlist culture dominates today’s piano scene, with more and more artists favouring thematic or conceptual programmes from short stand-alone pieces...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020
I heard Magda Tagliaferro only once: she played at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park at the conclusion of the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2020
Here is a curious curate’s egg. The recording is based on the concert Boris Bloch gave on the occasion of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2020
Reviewers often resort to the cliché ‘granitic’ when describing an interpretation that pursues a direct, unswerving course and conveys an...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020
Peter Seabourne (b1960) studied with Robin Holloway at Cambridge University in the early 1980s, and an entire disc of music...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2020
The music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and his treatise on keyboard-playing were essential to Haydn’s musical education, and one...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2020
George Crumb’s 1972/73 Makrokosmos Books 1 and 2 made innovative use of amplification and extended piano techniques both inside and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2020
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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