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...
String players of a certain vintage might remember the excitement caused in 1991 by the publication of Max Bruch’s A...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2017
This is James Ehnes’s first disc of Beethoven sonatas and I very much hope it will herald a complete survey....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017
Though both Jacqueline du Pré and Janet Baker were already well established and widely appreciated in 1965, this disc marked...
Reviewed in issue 5/1986
Anett Fritsch’s Mozart is a sheer delight. This is no bland essay of the usual suspects painted in anonymous colours...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2017
In 2015, when Glass’s complete set of 20 Études for solo piano were presented – tag-team-style – by five different...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2017
As we reach Volume 4 of this complete solo Brahms traversal, there’s no doubt that Jonathan Plowright and old Johannes...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017
Beatrice Rana has been making waves since her teens, notably at the 2013 Van Cliburn competition, where she won Silver...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017
If you are going to play Mozart’s fragile childhood sonatas ‘for keyboard with violin accompaniment’ on modern instruments – always...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017
Is it a British thing? Confronted with composers who write fresh, communicative music, rooted but not trapped in tradition, we…well,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2017
François-Xavier Roth’s Strauss series with his SWR orchestra has been garnering glowing reviews in these pages. This new instalment emphatically...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2017
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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