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...
Remarkably, David Fray had kept Chopin out of his active repertoire for 15 years before recording this disc. It’s perhaps...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2017
Poetry and music make for natural bedfellows and so Olga Jegunova’s generally pleasing programme of ‘Poetic Piano Sonatas’, in this...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2017
Had Alfred Cortot recorded Bartók the results may have sounded a little like this: in other words, rhythmically free, colourful...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2017
Bach the inexhaustible. What we know about his music, from musicologists such as Christoph Wolff and Michael Marissen, has been...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2017
This CD’s ingenious programme celebrates the influence of Bach on 19th- and 20th-century composers, and its seven pieces fall neatly...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 03/2017
‘It is a concert!’ begins Michael Barenboim in the engaging booklet-notes he’s written to accompany this recording. And indeed it...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2017
If one needed a musical pick-me-up, nothing better could refresh a jaded ear than this sparkling, generously filled disc of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2017
Is it going too far to say that Claudio Ambrosini has written, in his 1975 work for solo guitar Notturno...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2017
What might seem at first glance a bit of a hotchpotch of a disc, on closer acquaintance listens like a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2017
There is much to enjoy on this DVD. Individually the young Polish musicians are all accomplished and conscientious, and their...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2017
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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