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...
Towards the end of what became his adieu to the podium, Bernard Haitink led the Seventh Symphony of Bruckner with...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2020
I approached these performances with some trepidation, as the lovely promise shown in the opening movements of the Akademie für...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2020
Here we are: instalment three of a series that so far has been one of the finest ornaments of Beethoven’s...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2020
You could now round up more than a baker’s dozen recorded versions officially released of Grimes in all formats, visual...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2020
I confess that before this I had not encountered Jorge Federico Osorio (born Mexico, 1951) but on this hearing I...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2020
Bach meets Brahms, with Busoni and Reger as enablers, and they all meet Feldman thanks to Igor Levit. The chorale...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2020
Ann Martin-Davis’s new disc of Ravel, subtitled ‘The Language of Flowers’, is anchored by the Valses nobles et sentimentales and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2020
If I were allowed a two-word review of this disc, it would read as follows: buy it. But then, as...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2020
‘Melancholy struck Elizabethan England like an epidemic’, writes lutenist Bor Zuljan. Words, as it’s turned out, perfect for our own...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2020
I was blown away by Lukas Geniušas’s fantastical storytelling in his Prokofiev recording (4/19). For his new all-Chopin programme, my...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2020
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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