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 presence of the pioneering harpsichordist Wanda Landowska in early-20th-century Paris inspired many composers to write for her. Her instrument...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2015
Vieuxtemps was among the foremost of the post-Paganini generation of violinist-composers. That his music should be so little heard and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2015
In his accompanying notes to this live recording, Craig Sheppard quotes Kurt Sanderling’s comment that if Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2015
With his Chopin Mazurkas (see page 70) and an earlier Brilliant set of Scriabin sonatas, Dmitri Alexeev marks a return...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2015
Nicolai Lugansky is an impressive pianist, with a ravishingly beautiful sound and a technique that renders dense textures with perfect...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2015
Shani Diluka is a pianist whose playing throws open the doors to hitherto unimagined chambers within the realm of understatement....
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2015
For an entrée into the polyphonic world of Godowsky, Emanuele Delucchi’s programme could hardly be bettered – a representative, nicely...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2015
There’s a neat Cornelius Cardew quote about how best to approach the works of Morton Feldman: ‘Almost all Feldman’s music...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 12/2015
Luiza Borac reset the bar in Enescu’s solo piano music in her survey (2003 05), overtaking Aurora Ienei (Electrecord/Olympia –...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2015
Francesco Piemontesi, who numbers Brendel, Perahia, Weissenberg and Ousset among his teachers, offers a masterly account of Debussy’s Préludes. Yet...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2015
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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