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 coupling of Scriabin with Rachmaninov is a particularly interesting one. Fellow students though they were, their personalities were markedly...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2016
This is a wondrous disc. Yevgeny Sudbin has not been alone in championing the piano music of Nikolay Medtner: in...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2016
It could be argued that performances of the first and best known of Liszt’s Mephisto Waltzes by itself are missing...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2016
Two key aspects of Zoltán Kodály’s groundbreaking Solo Cello Sonata sit side by side: its ambitious extension of the instrument’s...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2016
Some people seem to click instantly with the light-hearted jazz-classical fusion of Ukrainian Nikolai Kapustin. For me, I confess, it...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2016
Is there a more omnivorous pianist on the planet than Cyprien Katsaris? Few equal the breadth and quantity of his...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2016
Writing in his accompanying essay, ‘A look at French musical life from 1829-1914’, Michel Dalberto makes an intriguing claim. For...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2016
It may be that the Italian pianist Alessandro Deljavan is destined for a controversial career. He is a highly demonstrative...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2016
When the 21-year-old South Korean Seong-Jin Cho won the 17th Chopin Competition last October, it seemed only a matter of...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2016
Jonathan Plowright’s complete Brahms piano music for BIS, inaugurated in 2013, has now reached Vol 3, with all its intelligence,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2016
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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