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...
Dana Zemtsov’s previous albums for this label (4/15, 9/15) confirm she is a sensitive and virtuoso player with a flair...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW20
Now aged 29, Tabea Debus is an alumna of several young professional artist schemes, and on one of her three...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW20
The slim slices of ‘bread’ that sandwich this debut album from Ground Floor (which, as much as I try to...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW20
As Anton Stadler was to Mozart and Richard Mühlfeld was to Brahms, Heinrich Baermann was Carl Maria von Weber’s clarinet...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW20
We used to see Shostakovich’s output discussed in terms of confessional chamber works and public symphonies, not that the division...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW20
This thoughtful coupling, one that might have been expected to initiate a whole series of recordings from the two Russian-born,...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW20
'He commands light and shade’, wrote Busoni about Mozart, ‘but his light never blinds, and his darkness still shows clear...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW20
Haydn had already acquired a reputation for the antic and the eccentric – inspired or downright offensive, according to taste...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW20
As is evident from both the booklet notes and their playing, Jörg Widmann and András Schiff share a love of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW20
Two new recordings centred around the Brahms cello sonatas – what riches! Daniel Müller-Schott makes his second appearance on disc...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith 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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