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...
Two years on from their blockbusting, Award-winning Les Troyens (12/17), could John Nelson’s team repeat their Strasbourg success with La...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2019
To the best of my knowledge, Martino Tirimo is the fourth pianist to have recorded Beethoven’s complete solo piano music,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2019
Benjamin Moser, born in Munich in 1981, serial competition entrant (fifth prize at the 2007 Tchaikovsky), student of Dmitri Bashkirov...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019
Barry Douglas continues his ‘personal salute … to great masterworks of the Russian repertoire’ after a first volume that paired...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019
‘Be careful with Scriabin’s music; don’t go too far or you might end up losing your sanity.’ So a teacher...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2019
Francesco Piemontesi presents here Schubert’s last three sonatas, all recorded in February 2018 in the same Swiss venue, though the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2019
Who could complain that Pierre Hantaï is taking his time to roam among Scarlatti’s sonatas – 26 years after the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2019
The Italian Renaissance lutenist/composer Albert de Rippe’s playing may or may not have had the power, as was said, to...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2019
I first became acquainted with Florian Noack’s gifts for lyricism and sensitivity through several Lyapunov discs released by ARS Produktion...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2019
Joseph Moog has one of those techniques that most pianists only dream about. His passagework fairly shimmers with prodigious effortlessness...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2019
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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