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...
Prepare yourself for a deliciously scintillating potpourri of choice delicacies, full of character and charm, the sort that has virtually...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2020
Belying her name, Aline van Barentzen (1897-1981), whom some sources say was a grand-niece of Carl Maria von Weber, was...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2020
For his second volume of what is evidently shaping towards a complete survey of all 555 Scarlatti sonatas, the 2012...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2020
Paderewski famously said of Moszkowski that ‘after Chopin, [he] best understands how to write for the piano, and his writing...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2020
In only a few of the 25 separate titles here does the Israeli pianist Amir Katz (b1973) fall short of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2020
William Henry Harris (1883-1973) is best remembered today for his Anglican church music and, even then, for really just one...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2020
‘In the end, it boils down to – would you want to hear this pianist again?’ So said Paul Lewis,...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2020
The four Ballades are frequently programmed together on record, the four Impromptus less so and, though it is not my...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2020
Apparently everything needs a title these days. Superficially ‘The Wanderer’ might appear to relate rather more closely to the Schubert...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2020
The greatest crisis of Beethoven’s life came in 1802, and was expressed in his heartfelt Heiligenstadt Testament. But he was...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith 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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