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...
At no point do the repertoires of these two discs overlap, but, as if tiptoeing around one another, both of...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2016
Hard on the heels of Igor Levit’s blistering new account of Rzewski’s variations comes a new recording by its dedicatee...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2016
Hoist with my own petard, I think. Reviewing Igor Levit’s Bach/Beethoven/Rzewski Variations (11/15), I rashly concluded that I would be...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2016
Kristian Bezuidenhout may not have chosen to shock but could well do so in the first movement of the ‘little...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2016
As Howard Shelley reaches the fourth instalment of his solo Mendelssohn journey, familiar and unfamiliar once again rub shoulders. He...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2016
At least until Liszt’s bicentenary, complete recordings of his Harmonies poétiques et religieuses were something of a rarity. Even stalwart...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2016
Scherbakov began the unprecedented task of recording Godowsky’s complete works nearly two decades ago. The end is in sight –...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016
The piano works of Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) span his entire creative life, from early ragtime influences to the complexity...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2016
This year the pianist Nelson Goerner has been more active than usual on behalf of Chopin. In October he served...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2016
Percussionist Matthias Kaul comes at Cage from a background in rock and jazz drumming, and it shows in his sense...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 01/2016
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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