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...
Stephen Hough’s piano-playing always seems informed by a composer’s instincts and sensibilities, attributes immediately discernible in his new recording combining...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2015
Nicolas Hodges stares into the middle distance, his fingers perched over the keyboard, his pupils fully dilated: cover art that...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2015
This disc is as interesting for the instrument as for Louis Couperin’s music. Colin Booth, exceptionally, is both a fine...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2015
Comparisons may be invidious, but they seem inescapable for two new sets of Chopin Preludes by Dong-Hyek Lim and Yundi....
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2015
The reverence with which some cellists choose to treat Bach’s Cello Suites can produce results that disappear in opposite directions:...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2015
This unusual disc takes as its starting point those succinct keyboard pieces, both stand-alone and developed later in collections (notably...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2015
‘You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practise, practise, practise. And then, when you finally get up there on...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2015
What is the most challenging repertoire for any artist to commit to disc? Bach’s Cello Suites, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, Mozart’s...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015
The five original members of London Winds have been playing together since 1988 and a sense of innate musical understanding...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2015
Comparisons may be of academic interest for this Hungarian-themed album, but Ligeti’s first work of early maturity receives an outrageously...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2015
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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