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...
In an interview included in the booklet notes, Florian Krumpöck discusses the importance of tone and resonance in relation to...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2023
Peter Jablonski concludes his survey of the Chopin Mazurkas with a release that matches the first volume (praised by Jed...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 12/2023
John Cage and Erik Satie never corresponded – the young American would only have been 12 years old when the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2023
Berio’s compositions for solo piano (two or four hands) make up a relatively small part of an output rich in...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2023
Barrios was an undisputed master of the guitar, Villa-Lobos a desultory practitioner, Ginastera a non-playing admirer of its unique sound...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2023
Frank Peter Zimmermann’s solo Bach was a lockdown project hatched at home, begun with no definite intention of recording but...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2023
For his earlier recording of the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach (8/23), Mahan Esfahani used both a clavichord and a...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 12/2023
Winner of the 2019 Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, the Mithras Trio launch...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2023
We last encountered Gautier Capuçon on his album ‘Sensations’ (1/23), striding at low tide towards Mont Saint-Michel with cello in...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2023
It was time resulting from lockdown that prompted Alexandra Mackenzie and Ingrid Sawers to delve into this wealth of largely...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse 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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