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...
‘What a delightful man,’ quotes the booklet-note of this CPO disc of symphonies by Robert Fuchs. And yes, he does...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2016
Here are two dulcet albums by voice-harp duos exploring music from early-17th-century Italy. Marc and Angélique Mauillon focus on the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2016
Paul Barnes’s interest in Philip Glass dates back to the mid-1990s, when he started performing, recording and arranging the composer’s...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2016
Robert Woolley’s slow-burn Sweelinck series reaches Vol 3, following the releases of Vol 1 (devoted to organ music – 10/03)...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2016
Just when you think that Garrick Ohlsson finally has all bases covered – from such staples as a complete Chopin...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2016
Vol 4 of Geoffrey Burleson’s Saint-Saëns complete piano works leads us dutifully through the dances and Souvenirs. And if the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2016
Any piano maven who doesn’t fall in love with Mompou at first hearing is either a liar or a curmudgeon....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2016
The American pianist Tzimon Barto arrives at this new disc of Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata via recordings of Schubert’s D894,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2016
Barcelona-born Enrique Bagaría has chosen four of Haydn’s most striking keyboard sonatas and talks in an engaging booklet essay about...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2016
Luigi Palombi’s disc of Duke Ellington sets up a discussion of those ever-problematic issues raised whenever classical pianists co opt...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2016
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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