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...
Silvestrov’s three numbered piano sonatas span 20 years, from 1960 to 1979, and together say much about the evolution of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW2015
Poor old Ludwig Schuncke! He makes Mozart and Schubert seem long-lived, dying of tuberculosis in 1834, two weeks shy of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2015
The young British pianist Cordelia Williams turns her attention to Schumann for her latest recording, combining two established masterpieces with...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2015
Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710) is a shadowy one all right. A contemporary in Rome of Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti, he mixed...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2015
Volume 40 of Naxos’s complete piano music of Liszt usefully combines all but one of the major solo Meyerbeer transcriptions....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2015
François-Xavier Poizat, a 26-year-old French-Swiss pianist, could hardly have produced a more dazzling tribute to Ginastera, Argentina’s foremost composer. He...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2015
In the past 12 months alone these pages have noted new recordings of Chopin’s Preludes by Ingrid Fliter, Daniel Trifonov,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2015
Maria Perrotta offers a richly comprehensive and demanding live Chopin programme on her new disc from Italian Decca. For one...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2015
Beethoven introduces his Eroica Variations with the theme’s bare-boned architectural essence. Konstantin Scherbakov, however, can’t help but embellish the foundation...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2015
Anton Diabelli’s call to ‘The Foremost Tone Poets and Virtuosi of Vienna and the Austrian States’ each to write a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2015
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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