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...
John Ogdon considered composing an unfocused pastime and hobby in relation to his busy concert career but that didn’t stop...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
Writing in these pages recently about Paul Lewis’s latest Haydn adventure (Harmonia Mundi, 5/18), Harriet Smith rightly reminds us that...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2018
Michael Endres’s first recorded foray into Fauré (pun intended) stands out from the pack in several respects. In contrast to...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
The ‘Funeral March’ Sonata immediately makes it clear why Aimi Kobayashi should have made it through to the final stage...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2018
It was during my studies at Kiev Conservatory that I first came across Norma Fisher’s name as an outstanding piano...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2018
For her third Odradek CD release, Pina Napolitano presents an intriguing playlist. She opens with Brahms’s Op 118 Piano Pieces,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
The latest instalment in Angela Hewitt’s traversal of Beethoven’s piano sonatas – Vol 7, though not packaged as such –...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2018
Proverbially, the clavichord is held to be the most expressive of all keyboard instruments because the player’s contact with the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2018
Despite his prolific creative output and long-held prominence as the founder and conductor of important new music ensembles, Theodore Antoniou...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
‘Metamorphoses’: a curious name for an ensemble devoted to the rather limited repertoire for clarinet, viola and piano, of which...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2018
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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