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...
Juanjo Mena’s recording of La vida breve was made in tandem with a concert performance, one of his last as...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2019
Emanuel Geibel’s libretto to Die Loreley is based on an invented saga dating from 1800 which claims a huge rock...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2019
How many composers in history could claim that their latest opera had productions booked in six countries before it had...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2019
As ambitious recording projects go, this one must rank pretty high: so high, in fact, that it may be thought...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2019
Although the Golden Age of the Town Hall Organist is – alas – just a distant memory for most of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2019
The Russian piano prelude owes almost as much to Scriabin as it does to Rachmaninov: numerically speaking, in fact, even...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 03/2019
This latest instalment in Paul Lewis’s Schubert pilgrimage certainly enhances his reputation. It is, as always, intelligently paced and shaped,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2019
Collectors familiar with Jean-Philippe Collard’s excellent EMI Rachmaninov recordings will be pleased to see the pianist return to the composer....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2019
Two new discs, by Eric Le Sage on Alpha Classics and Nicolas Stavy on BIS, add further testimony that Gabriel...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2019
The prospect of another recording of Chopin’s two most popular piano sonatas does not necessarily fill one with ‘a running...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2019
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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