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...
It takes real thought to come up with something genuinely unusual in Beethoven year, so full marks to Mari Kodama...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2020
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to claim that new music during the past 30 years or so would have taken...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2020
The Hungarian pianist Zoltán Fejérvári, a 2016 Borletti-Buitoni fellow and winner of the Montreal competition the following year, is a...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2020
If you’re used to the brilliance of the harpsichord music of Rameau and Scarlatti on the instrument for which it...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2020
The keyboard sonatas of Pietro Domenico Paradisi are robust, inventive works, first published in London in 1754. Anna Paradiso misses...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2020
Once upon a time Dmitry Kabalevsky enjoyed a place on the fourth pedestal of Soviet composers alongside Shostakovich, Prokofiev and...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2020
Normally, when I have a good feeling about a recording from an initial dip my admiration grows with repeated listening...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2020
The works featured on Grand Piano’s second volume of piano music by the prolific and multifaceted Croatian composer Blagoje Bersa...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2020
Not just his music but even the name Semyon Barmotin (1877-1939) languished for decades in obscurity, Gérald Hugon’s booklet note...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2020
Because Trevor Pinnock’s solo harpsichord forays are few and far between these days, it’s easy to forget just what a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2020
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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