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...
Prognosticating the future reputation of a composer, particularly one who died as recently as 30 years ago, is always risky....
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2018
Garrick Ohlsson seems to be on a roll lately. He’s recording more prolifically than ever and is constantly expanding his...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2018
Today the musical vistas in Haydn, Clementi and Mozart enabled by using Walter, Stein and Broadwood pianos seem almost a...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2018
Prolific across almost all genres, William Bolcom (80 this May) is also a formidable pianist at both concert and cabaret...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2018
Until this disc arrived for review, my only exposure to the Croatian composer Blagoje Bersa (1873-1934) was through his exuberant,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2018
Josep Colom does more than merely intersperse Bach Preludes from The Well-Tempered Clavier and various Nocturnes and Études by Chopin....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2018
Ning Feng’s solo Bach is quite unlike anyone else’s, pure filigree in certain of the faster movements (the presto Double...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2018
There is a coarse and forthright authority to the composer-led first recordings of Chichester Psalms (CBS, 12/65) and Symphony of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2018
Few ensembles put a programme together quite as well as Voces8. Thoughtful, themed discs have become something of a signature...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2018
The sound of tapping feet invokes a whole era of classic Broadway and Hollywood musicals, and when the curtain rises...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2018
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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