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...
Happy the young musician with a film-maker for a friend. At least if the film-maker is as talented – yet...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2020
Clearly not one to do things by halves, Daniel-Ben Pienaar – whose releases already include the complete Beethoven sonatas and...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2020
It’s not enough for Yuval Zorn to be one of today’s most distinctive symphonic and opera conductors; he’s also a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2020
Anton Diabelli, the pianist, composer, and publisher from near Salzburg, brought out Beethoven’s Op 120 in 1823 and the following...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2020
With its relatively short duration, five-language notes, moody photographs and generous space allotted to sponsors (Breguet Watches of Switzerland, who...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2020
For many organists the name of Giles Swayne became associated with their instrument with his Riff-Raff of 1983, which set...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2020
Of Shai Wosner’s 13 or so CDs, if my calculations are correct, four are solo recordings, and three of those...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2020
You have to hand it to Martin Anderson and his endlessly enterprising Toccata Classics label. Hardly a month passes without...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2020
Martina Filjak is a Croatian pianist (b1978) who first came to public attention when she won the Gold Medal at...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2020
One could spend time discussing why a composer of Thomas Adès’s prominence is compelled to record Janáček’s piano music, but...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2020
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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