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...
The annual Husum disc, issued just before the succeeding year’s festival opens, aims to represent every pianist invited to play....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2016
There are few young pianists around today to whose latest release one looks forward as eagerly as one does to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2016
Look at the close-ups on any YouTube video of Tatyana Nikolaieva’s pianism and you will see on full display the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2016
The Hungarian-naturalised-British pianist Louis (Lajos) Kentner is today probably most frequently associated with Liszt, no doubt because of the several...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2016
According to the blurb on the back cover of his Mozart sonata cycle, Fazıl Say aims to capture ‘a certain...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2016
Mendelssohn’s six organ sonatas do not crop up all that often on the same disc. They tend to come as...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2016
The French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie is nothing if not versatile. His Beethoven sonatas (1/11) demonstrated a thoughtful approach to canonic...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2016
Listening to Janusz Olejniczak’s two-disc set of Mazurkas is like stepping back in time, to an age when interpretation of...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2016
Soon to be 25, Sophie Pacini is a prodigious pianist, muscular in a way that suggests she’d be happy to...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2016
Fortunately for us at least two very individual young musicians are currently recording Bartók’s solo piano music, players who go...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2016
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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