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...
Gaechinger Cantorey, the choir and orchestra of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, opt for the 1749 revision of the St John...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2020
My colleague Harriet Smith wrote a mixed yet accurate and fair-minded review for Alessandro Taverna’s previous live CD recorded at...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020
The booklet with this first disc in the Naxos cycle of Widor organ symphonies informs us that the restored 1928...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2020
The sonatas of John White – 180 and counting – rank among the largest and most varied corpuses of piano...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2020
The salon and pedagogical miniatures of the 19th-century guitarist-composers Fernando Sor, Mauro Giuliani, Dionisio Aguado, Matteo Carcassi et al sound...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2020
Michelle Assay’s harsh yet accurate observations concerning Llŷr Williams’s initial Schubert volumes (2/20) sometimes mirror my mixed responses to the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020
In my version of Utopia, all professional pianists would start their day by playing through at least one of Schubert’s...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2020
As far as I know, this is only the third recording of Rubinstein’s E minor Sonata and the second of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2020
Given that Jean-Philippe Collard revels in music containing great harmonic subtlety (Fauré) and textual intricacy (Rachmaninov), it’s not surprising how...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020
What happened to the great Russian composer-pianist tradition in the decades after the death of Scriabin and the emigration of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2020
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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