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...
The centrepiece here is Lili Boulanger’s emotionally turbulent 13-song cycle Clairières dans le ciel (‘Clearings in the sky’, 1914) on...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
For most readers, Jos van Immerseel will be associated primarily with historical pianos, on which he has over the years...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2024
There have been only seven Birmingham City Organists since the post was created in 1834, and just four in the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2024
Listen to Adam Laloum caress the gentle return of the main theme at the end of the A major Sonata’s...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 01/2024
Five years ago, Ward Marston released substantial fragments from a demonstration of the Symphonic Dances given by Rachmaninov to help...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 01/2024
Sonya Bach studied with both Alicia de Larrocha and Lazar Berman, so it’s no surprise that in her hands A...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 01/2024
Patrick Rucker thought very highly of Nino Gvetadze’s Schumann recording on this label (12/20), so I was intrigued to hear...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2024
This release is billed as Vol 1 of the complete music for solo piano of Mélanie Hélène Bonis, known as...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2024
In many ways, Xaver Scharwenka’s piano duet transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies stand out from numerous others by such 19th-century ‘in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024
Serious forethought and scrutinised detail inform Shai Wosner’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, sometimes getting in the music’s way, notwithstanding...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024
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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