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...
There has been a spate of Cazzati anthologies this year. Barring the odd appearance in collections (think of the Gabrieli...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2023
The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, on New York’s Fifth Avenue, counts as one of the leading Anglican...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/2023
Jordi Savall’s pacing of the Missa encompasses splendour as well as vigour. It is a minute or two longer than...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2023
Hot on the heels of the shortlisting of Rachel Podger’s ‘Tutta sola’ (Channel Classics, 1/23) in the Instrumental category of...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2023
Polish piano music, for most of us, begins with Chopin (followed later by Paderewski and Szymanowski). The myriad other composers...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2023
His reputation as an exponent of period instruments well established, Tomasz Ritter follows his 2019 Chopin miscellany with this anthology...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2023
Having completed his Beethoven project, Ronald Brautigam now turns his attention to Schubert, and this, his first foray into his...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2023
It is well known that Rachmaninov made extensive cuts and adjustments to his First Piano Sonata, having consulted with its...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2023
In many respects, Angela Hewitt’s solo Mozart recordings represent a modern-day parallel to Walter Gieseking’s 1953 EMI cycle. Her playing...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2023
Here is a refreshingly entertaining disc from longtime piano partners Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva, now also co-directors of the...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2023
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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