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...
Scherbakov is a pianist I have long admired, a superb technician with a wide-ranging and adventurous repertoire. His more than...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2019
When faced with a body of work as prodigious as Liszt’s piano music, a lexicographic approach must be tempting. In...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2019
Frescobaldi’s first book of Toccate e partite d’intavolatura di cimbalo (1615) was published in Rome during his first stint as...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2019
With Book 2, Céline Frisch completes her traversal of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, maintaining the stylishly high standards and cultivated musicianship...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2019
In 1700, the 15-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach left behind his native Thuringia and travelled to Luneberg, in the north of...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 06/2019
For his new Odradek recording, the Calabrian pianist Vittorio Forte has chosen a programme of fantasies, rondos and variations written...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2019
One of the many pleasures of this recording of Italian music for Baroque cello is hearing Beiliang Zhu play student/teacher...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2019
To my ears there’s a subtle French perfume lingering over the opening to this Restoration London-themed programme from La Rêveuse;...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2019
Hugo Ticciati clearly delights in the elusive. His biography, unlike those of his colleagues, does not mention a single orchestra...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2019
This latest anthology from those enterprising folk at Albion Records launches in fine style with the endearingly personal Suite that...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2019
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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