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...
Although he never quite made the transition from cult artist to mainstream composer, Horaţiu Rădulescu (1942-2008) is widely regarded as...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2019
It’s just not fair. The pianist is marvellous and the programme is attractive. But the brittle, drier-than-dry recorded sound really...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2019
If technicolour accounts of Mussorgsky’s Pictures are not your thing, and you wish the pianist wasn’t determined to make the...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2019
On the surface, Michael Korstick’s interpretation of Franck’s Prélude, choral et fugue is a model of control and forethought, with...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2019
Although most of these pieces have been collated on various anthologies of French piano music, few of them can match...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2019
The UK-based Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu continues her survey of various prelude cycles with Fauré and Messiaen. It commences with...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2019
Forkel’s pioneering biography of Bach may mention a suite ‘made for an Englishman of rank’, but that is where the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2019
Jayson Gillham’s is the most enjoyable and worthwhile disc of hyphenated Bach since Hannes Minnaar’s (Cobra, 1/14) and Víkingur Ólafsson’s...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2019
There are interesting aspects to this set, the first to strike me being the resonant acoustic of the Österåker Church...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2019
It takes a particularly selfless kind of cellist to begin a recital with Beethoven’s Bei Männern Variations. Donald Tovey once...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019
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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