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...
Lavinia Meijer’s debut recording of Glass’s music (Channel Classics, 3/13) was a rather underwhelming experience. Consisting mainly of the dark...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2017
Georgian-born Mariam Batsashvili won first prize at the 2014 International Franz Liszt Competition in Utrecht, the first female artist to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2017
Much painstaking detective work and considerable editorial expertise went into this first recording of Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony in an...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2017
On February 18, 2015, Peter Donohoe undertook a remarkable tour de force of concentration, stamina and technical prowess by playing...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2017
To listeners who know Alexander Melnikov’s cultivated musicality and fastidious pianism – so beautifully manifest in the series of Schumann...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2017
All-Henselt discs are few and far between (the last in these pages was Piers Lane’s less than successful accounts of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2017
No doubt about it, compared to the Mozart piano sonatas Haydn’s are still neglected. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s extended project for Chandos...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 02/2017
This recital (for it is precisely that; a DVD of the event, expertly filmed in January 2016, accompanies the SACD)...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2017
‘I’m in love with Chopin – his music never ceases to amaze me’, Pollini is quoted as saying on the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2017
A French-Canadian pianist named Hamelin, but not that one and no relation. Charles Richard-Hamelin (silver medallist at the 2015 Chopin...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2017
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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