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...
In a recently posted internet interview, Russian-born Dmitri Alexeev discusses his role as a juror of the Chopin Competition and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2015
Paavali Jumppanen’s latest double-CD release proves the most consistently engaging so far in his Beethoven sonata cycle. The rhythmically astute...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2015
A frustrating issue. Midori’s careful and polished addition to the extensive catalogue of recordings of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2015
The Cambridge choral tradition has continued in the US, thanks to the advocacy of John Scott, organ scholar at St...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2015
Few pioneering recordings from any era burn with greater passionate intensity or recreative spark than those set down in London...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2015
Dmitri Hvorostovsky has always been just as comfortable on the recital platform as on the operatic stage, a state of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2015
<p>Today Biber is probably the best known of the mid- to late‑17th-century violin virtuoso...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2015
‘[Senesino] put me in a sweat in telling me that Parthenope was likely to be brought on the stage, for...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2015
We have got used to the idea now that, coming from the Dunedin Consort, core works will not be quite...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue:
The degree to which conductors are more or less synonymous with particular works is a largely subjective matter, though few...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue:
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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