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...
Janina Fialkowska previously impressed me with her accounts of Schubert’s Sonatas D664 and 894. Her reading of the E flat...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2016
The Spanish nationalism that saw composers as diverse as Albéniz, Falla and Rodrigo look to traditional and archaic musics for...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2016
Paganini was already 46 when he first left his native Italy for a series of concerts throughout Europe. The effect...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2016
Yulianna Avdeeva’s first prize in the 2010 Chopin Competition was not without controversy. Hearing her play Shostakovich last year in...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2016
Paavali Jumppanen’s Beethoven cycle gets better with each new instalment and nearly everything here is a keeper. He obviously adores...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2016
As in Jonathan Biss’s first four Beethoven discs, Vol 5 offers a mix of works from various periods. It adds...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2016
No one could accuse Christophe Rousset of rushing to record The Well-Tempered Clavier; Book 1 arrives a year after Book...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2016
Alarm bells always start to ring when the cover of a performance of solo Bach gives the disc a moniker...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2016
It’s not just the enticing morceaux on offer and the undiluted pleasure of hearing a great violinist at the top...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2016
This is a delightful, well-paced recital of early- and mid-18th-century French music, if not always composed specifically for the recorder...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2016
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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