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...
Domenico Scarlatti stands in relation to his great Baroque era contemporaries Bach and Handel much as Chopin did to peers...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW20
Bertrand Chamayou begins the essay to his new disc of berceuses and lullabies with the admission ‘I’m a night owl’....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW20
To my ears, Haydn’s ‘Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser’ Variations lose something in translation en route between the original string...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW20
Recent anniversaries have undoubtedly raised the profile of Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-70). Stopping short of full maturity, his solo piano...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW20
William Youn first made an impression on me with his Mozart sonatas for Oehms; and in 2018 I much enjoyed...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW20
‘As a pianoforte player,’ the first edition of Grove’s Dictionary tells us, ‘Moscheles was distinguished by a crisp and incisive...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW20
This handsome new release brings together all of James MacMillan’s organ music to date, spanning some 36 years of composition...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2020
This is the first volume of an intended series devoted to the piano music of Theodor Leschetizky (1830-1915), best known...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW20
On the cusp of completing her Beethoven sonata cycle for Hyperion, Angela Hewitt makes a detour of sorts with a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW20
The truncheon of the Bach police is becoming increasingly difficult to wave about. The pandemic has transformed the way that...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW20
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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