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...
‘I would almost buy the record just for Fournier,’ wrote Trevor Harvey of Pierre Fournier’s playing on the celebrated 1960...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2015
Nicholas McCarthy is unique in music history in being the first person born without a right arm to make a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015
Until now, Kathryn Stott’s wide-ranging solo repertoire for BIS has not included French music, although she’s recorded plenty for other...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2015
As always, ‘Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum’ tickles the fancy, allowing pianists off the leash to delight...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015
Although Vaughan Williams and the organ did not enjoy a natural rapport (despite the best efforts of his teachers Walter...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2015
At one time touted as the natural successor to Shostakovich – and certainly the main carrier of that torch as...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2015
Sigismond Thalberg (1812 71) is routinely dismissed as an important composer for the piano. His music glitters and is certainly...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015
Giuseppe Tartini was a major 18th-century figure, a violinist-composer who from his base in Padua became one of Europe’s most...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2015
This is the third of Imogen Cooper’s discs centred around Schumann for Chandos and the first wholly devoted to Robert....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2015
Although he partnered Paul Lewis on a disc of Schubert’s duets on Hyperion (12/10), it’s taken some time for Steven...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2015
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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