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...
After reviewing Vikingur Ólafsson’s disc of Bach (11/18) I was eager to hear what he’d do next and this certainly...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2020
Muzio Clementi’s 250th birthday was celebrated in 2002 with scholarly conferences in Perugia and Rome. Two years earlier, Ut Orpheus,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2020
Toccata Classics continues its mission on behalf of the piano transcriptions of August Stradal (1860-1930), covering compositions by Bach, Wagner,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020
The French pianist Hortense Cartier-Bresson, who studied with Yvonne Loriod and György Sebők, now teaches at the Paris Conservatoire and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2020
For pianists and music lovers who came of age in the 1970s and ’80s, Maurizio Pollini’s Beethoven recordings were considered...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020
Two years ago it was the Diabelli Variations; now 24-year-old Filippo Gorini is scaling scarcely less Himalayan peaks. And I...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2020
In James Blish’s story A Work of Art, scientists in an art-starved future use the music of Richard Strauss to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2020
Ursula Paludan Monberg, born in 1982 in Aalborg, Denmark, is already the doyenne of the natural horn, having occupied principal...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020
You could be forgiven for looking at the title of this latest collaboration between French masters of their art, Jean-Guihen...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2020
Ethel Smyth became the doyenne of British women composers but she was young once, as evidenced by her early Cello...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards 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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