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...
This CD is hardly ‘modern’ (its repertoire goes back to 1909) and nor is it a ‘recital’ in the sense...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2018
The original idea, from which this CD and its illustrated booklet is a spin-off, was a multi-sensory project bringing together...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2018
This disc of early piano music offers a different side from Suk the maximalist, with works such as Asrael and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2018
The three individual volumes encompassing Steven Devine’s complete Rameau survey were originally available only in download format. Resonus has now...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2018
The Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi, now in his mid-thirties, is quietly carving out an impressive career for himself and this...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2018
A keen continuo player and chamber musician, lutenist Axel Wolf’s previous recordings include music by JS Bach, Handel, Hasse and...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2018
Érard pianos from either side of 1900 seem to have survived the ageing process rather well, at least to the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2018
This disc was originally released on Zig Zag Territoires, and it has been a great pleasure returning to it, thanks...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2018
David Goode has now reached Vol 7 in his series of Bach’s complete organ works, recorded once again on the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2018
There’s a surprise for anyone who puts on this recording without looking at the booklet first: its opening notes are...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2018
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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