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...
Martin Jones’s three-CD album of Roger-Ducasse’s complete piano music is a bewildering stimulation for jaded palates. Bewildering because Roger-Ducasse’s elusive...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015
A first listen to 25 year old Lukas Geniušas’s performance of Rachmaninov’s 24 Preludes left me enormously impressed. A second...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015
Until now, the Georgian pianist Elisso Bolkvadze has recorded primarily for the Sony Classical Infinity Digital and Cascavelle labels. On...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2015
Winner of international prizes and invariably a Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Alessio Bax now turns to the sharply opposed worlds of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015
Gottschalk is a composer you have to cherry-pick, and on paper this is an attractively varied programme mixing the sentimental,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015
What an oddly balanced programme: four of Chopin’s most familiar masterpieces played in sequence (not composed as a suite and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015
In the penultimate volume of his Chandos Brahms cycle, Barry Douglas continues to create provocative playlists by liberating short pieces...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2015
With the Liszt Sonata and now Brahms’s Paganini Variations, to say nothing of the Saint-Saëns-Liszt-Horowitz Danse macabre coupling, Alexander Gavrylyuk...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2015
This disc features a Christopher Clarke instrument (modelled on a Fritz piano from Vienna, c1818), whose well-regulated action and varied...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2015
Following a cautious all-Schumann debut (3/15), Boris Giltburg’s second Naxos release, devoted to three Beethoven sonatas, finds the 2013 Queen...
Reviewed by Jed Distler 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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