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...
Here are all of Ferruccio Busoni’s published piano pieces dating from his 11th through 17th years. The legendary pianist/composer may...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2020
Few keyboard players are able to match the Beethoven credentials of the Belgian conductor and fortepianist Jos van Immerseel, who...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2020
Hearing Murray Perahia, András Schiff or Angela Hewitt in Bach’s Goldberg Variations is akin to absorbing a substantial literary work....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2020
The first thing to say about this debut recording from the young London-based Russian duo of Anna Ovsyanikova and Julia...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2020
Don’t be fooled by the playful title. Simon Trpčeski’s exploration of Macedonian folk music, born at the 2017 Ludwigsburg Festival...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2020
The premise behind this album conjures up manifold possibilities, but the Navarra Quartet have devised an illuminating programme. Most perceptive...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2020
This is a fine traversal of Stravinsky’s output for violin and piano from two of Portugal’s most distinguished chamber musicians....
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2020
Maverick, mercurial, outspoken, charismatic, Fazıl Say (b1970) is the composer-laureate of Turkey, as works such as the oratorio Nâzım (2001),...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2020
With a meagre legacy of classical music to call their own, Croatian composers in the first half of the last...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2020
Assistant to Bruno Walter, friend of Albert Einstein, author of an ethnomusicological dictionary in common use today: Walter Kaufmann has...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill 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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