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...
Whatever the rationale behind Alice Sara Ott’s hybrid programme, her Beethoven is enlivened by some fascinating interpretative touches. She greets...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2023
The salient qualities that I praised in Ewa Pobłocka’s recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 carry over to Book...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2023
This is a bold choice for Swiss pianist Oliver Schnyder’s first foray into Bach on record. How do you like...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2023
The ‘second’ violin sonatas of Ravel and Prokofiev are unusual bedfellows on disc – Viktoria Mullova paired them early in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2023
It’s been less than a year since Alpha released Fazıl Say’s thrilling and thought-provoking duo recital with Patricia Kopatchinskaja (2/23)....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2023
It is not every pianist who can pick up the phone and ask Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky or Nelson Freire...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2023
No prizes for guessing the focus of this multi-composer programme; and yes, this would hardly be the first programme to...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2023
The Tcherepnin family is a musical dynasty that has given us several generations of composers. The music of the three...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 11/2023
The Busch Trio have been garnering glowing reviews in 19th-century repertoire. Now they show themselves equally at home in the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2023
There are many recordings of Purcell’s Fantazias to choose from: broken consort in London Baroque’s early account (EMI, 3/84 –...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2023
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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