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...
This is the first volume in a project to, as the blurb puts it, ‘show the stylistic breadth, high musical...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW16
The music of György Kurtág, who celebrated his 90th birthday in February, is enjoying a richly deserved if belated groundswell...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW16
Harpsichordist Mitzi Meyerson has tremendous fun with these Eight Setts of Lessons for the Harpsichord by the English composer John...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: AW16
It’s often said that Hans Werner Henze’s music for solo guitar displays a more intimate, lyrical aspect of the German...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW16
Glinka’s piano music holds its place in the repertoire about as firmly as his (far more significant) operas A Life...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16
As a Beethoven interpreter, Angela Brownridge hits and misses. Her long experience with Op 2 No 3 reveals itself in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW16
If dozens of recordings of Bartók’s Solo Sonata are available, scarcely a handful of violinists have recorded the solo pieces...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW16
Kyung Wha Chung’s solo Bach has changed since she last recorded some more than 40 years ago, but then, whose...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW16
There’s plenty to enjoy here, though Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott virtually duplicate a programme that Nigel Kennedy and Lynn...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW16
Cellist Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann is regularly to be found performing with early music ensembles such as La Petite Bande, Bach...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW16
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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