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...
At first glance, it is hard to imagine anything cheerful coming from a theorbo. It even looks like an instrument...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2019
Listeners familiar with these oft-recorded works will notice that Marc Ponthus often favours faster and freer tempos than one commonly...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2019
The first volume in Andrea Lucchesini’s projected survey of Schubert’s late piano works cheats a bit by including the relatively...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2019
Until recently, my experience of Artur Schnabel as composer was limited to the stylistic disconnect of the cadenzas to his...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2019
Surely you might be forgiven for mistaking one of the pieces from Op 6 of Jean Louis Nicodé (1853-1919), the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2019
Incredibly, it took until 2016 for any two-piano team to make a commercial recording of Saint Saëns’s superb arrangement of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2019
Zoltán Fejérvári, a native of Budapest still in his early thirties, won the 2017 Montreal Competition and was a Borletti-Buitoni...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2019
The ‘big late-Romantic French piano sonata’ championship essentially boasts two contenders: the Paul Dukas Sonata and Vincent d’Indy’s equally ambitious...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2019
It may be that Jérôme Hantaï is better known to the greater musical public as a distinguished viola da gamba...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2019
Bavouzet is clearly a man of ‘intégral ity’. Having recorded to great acclaim the complete works of Debussy, he launched...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2019
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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