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 sonata for solo string instrument is a genre Weinberg made more or less his own in the Soviet Union,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2016
From the first prelude in B major to the last one in no designated key, the 90 miniatures on this...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2016
Considering his formidable keyboard facility, it’s surprising that Nino Rota composed relatively few original piano works, although his celebrated film...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016
JS Bach hovers very audibly behind of these four wonderful works, sometimes, metaphorically speaking, even stepping forwards to take the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2016
Via Crucis, Liszt’s startling late-period masterpiece, employs tortuous chromaticism and violent dissonance to create a far more ‘graphic’ evocation of...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2016
Daniel Röhm (b1974, Böblingen, Germany) is a new name to me but a pianist who emerges from this recital with...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2016
With all of the inter opus mixing and matching characterising the first five volumes of Barry Douglas’s Brahms cycle, a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016
The ups and downs characterising Christian Leotta’s recent Beethoven sonata cycle spill over into his Diabelli Variations, which has a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016
Midori Seiler’s recording of the unaccompanied Partitas of JS Bach (released five years ago – 4/11), had a number of...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2016
Following her iconoclastic role-reversing 2008 Meistersinger (Opus Arte, 3/11), Katharina Wagner now gets a novel focus on Tristan und Isolde...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2016
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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