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...
Harold Truscott (1914 92) is a telling example of a composer little appreciated in his lifetime and barely more so...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2020
Russian and Soviet music and culture run like a river through Peter Donohoe’s distinguished career. His joint silver medal at...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2020
Despite his enormous influence on Dutch and north German music, especially the composers Bach would study in his youth, Jan...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2020
Llŷr Williams’s first commercial disc – an all-Chopin selection including the Preludes – Quartz, 8/06) – received quite harsh criticism...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 02/2020
The powerful, impassioned pianism displayed in the Armenian-American pianist Kariné Poghosyan’s all-Khachaturian solo debut CD (Grand Piano, 2015) remains evident...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2020
Steven Osborne’s assured mastery in a wide range of repertoire continues to expand and amaze. At first hearing, the pianist...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2020
Apart from the ubiquitous Toccata and the Piano Concerto, championed and first recorded by William Kapell with Koussevitzky and the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2020
After her selection of fantasies on her previous Channel Classics disc (11/18), the Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova here moves to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2020
Polina Osetinskaya imbues each of this disc’s Bach and Scarlatti selections with a full-bodied sonority built from the bottom up,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2020
Two fine instruments were used for these recordings, a c1685 violin by a South Tyrolean master for the Partitas, and...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2020
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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