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...
Unlike his first two suites for piano, Enescu’s Op 18 is essentially a collection of individual, unrelated pieces brought together...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12
Given the warm reception accorded his 2009 Brahms B flat Concerto with Tadaaki Otaka and the NHK SO (7/18), it...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2019
Amid the veritable blizzard of Beethoven recordings that has already begun in anticipation of the 250th anniversary of his birth...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2019
Reger’s transcriptions for piano duet of the six Brandenburg Concertos date from the early 1900s. They were so well received,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019
Critics and piano mavens will likely evaluate Angela Hewitt’s new 2018 recording of the Bach Partitas alongside her 1996/97 version....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2019
After the outstanding recording by Paul Wee of Alkan’s Symphony and Concerto for solo piano in the November issue comes...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2019
Last album it was musical jokes. This time it’s the art of variation form. But while on paper ‘Variety’ may...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2019
If instruments have characters, the oboe, surely, is among the most candid. In a personal note appended to the booklet...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2019
When the Ukrainian violinist Diana Tishchenko won the 2018 Long Thibaud Crespin Competition in Paris she was the indisputable winner....
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2019
The most interesting item here is a wild amalgam of folk-derived dance music and orchestral rabble-rousing from Tajikistan-born Benjamin Yusupov,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan 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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