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...
My introduction to Boris Giltburg was in November 2014, when he appeared with the Baltimore Symphony under Marin Alsop playing...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2020
By June 2019 when, at the age of 22, Alexandre Kantorow became the first French pianist to win the Tchaikovsky...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2020
In Lindsay Kemp’s fascinating feature on the Goldbergs in the October issue, one of the subjects he addresses is how...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2020
La Rêveuse bring us a disc of splendid music-making. If the finely phrased strings bursting with vivacity in the opening...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2020
Berlin, as James Jolly reported in his streaming feature (8/20), was the first major city to break the musical silence...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2020
The violin was with Nielsen from the beginning. His father was an accomplished amateur, who showed him the way around...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2020
Dejan Lazić explains how Mozart was the cause of his becoming a musician – upon seeing the film Amadeus, no...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2020
The cello may technically be the star of the show in Mendelssohn’s two cello sonatas but they’re equally works that...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2020
Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812) falls into that unfortunate group of composers most famous for a piece of music by someone...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2020
Cheryl Frances-Hoad (b1980) has enjoyed a fruitful relationship with Champs Hill Records these past few years, this latest release a...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse 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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