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...
This is a thoroughly satisfying essay on the possibilities of a connection between the keyboard works of Joseph Haydn and...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 09/2015
Coming hard on the heels of Stephen Hough’s selection from all 10 books of the Lyric Pieces (Hyperion, 6/15) is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2015
Louis Lortie’s earlier recordings in his Chopin series have received mixed reviews in these pages, ranging from enthusiastic (BM and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2015
‘Chopin Now’ is the title of this new disc from the Norwegian pianist Håkon Austbø, a concept explored and explained...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2015
Few bassoonists could hope to match Pascal Gallois when it comes to his extending of an all too limited repertoire....
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2015
As with previous instalments in Angela Hewitt’s near-complete Beethoven cycle, this fifth volume, for the most part, offers interpretations characterised...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2015
With works recorded as often as Bach’s Cello Suites, it is essential for the listener, if her interest is to...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2015
This generously filled two-disc set was recorded in 2013 on the mighty Klais organ (of 1962) in the rebuilt Cistercian...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2015
In some respects, this is a very personal disc. It aims, we are told, to explore the ‘many and often...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2015
Austral Harmony – a trio of two Australians and a Brit – invite listeners to experience a carefully imagined, rather...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 09/2015
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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