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...
Usually a disc of César Franck’s piano music – especially one that includes the Prelude, Chorale and Fugue – would...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2020
Jan Michiels previously recorded four of Busoni’s Bach chorale prelude transcriptions and Busoni’s Fantasia contrappuntistica for a 2010 release on...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2020
Bach’s Toccatas seem to present their interpreters thorny issues. With no surviving manuscripts from Bach himself, and with the number...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2020
Can you ever speak in elevated, grandiose terms about a classical guitarist? You want to avoid weight, to find instead...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2020
The rich repertoire of the British 20th-century violin sonata, surely one of the richest national repertoires of its era, bears...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 06/2020
‘Treasures from the United States and Brazil’ in truth for this warmly recorded and passionately played new disc. This is...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2020
This debut disc is, hands down, some of the best recorded Telemann out there, and I am ready to go...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2020
To follow up his Steinway & Sons label debut devoted to Cuban piano music, the Russian/American pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine charts...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2020
A Dutch violinist and Hungarian viola player and cellist coalesce around the Irish pianist Finghin Collins in Mozart’s two piano...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2020
Extraordinary as it sounds, I think this may be the first time that the string-ensemble chamber music of Clara Schumann...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2020
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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