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...
Born into an affluent Derbyshire family with strong links to the military and ties stretching all the way back to...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2015
Here once more, on his third Chopin recording for Delphian, David Wilde presents a determined assault on traditional wisdom, on...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015
The second volume in Mark Bebbington’s welcome and conspicuously classy survey of Bliss’s complete piano output contains one premiere recording...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2015
Given the slight, four-movement sonata that rounds off this fascinating disc, the music of William Hamilton Bird wouldn’t ordinarily merit...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2015
First the positives. In Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, Nick Van Bloss’s supple precision brings out the shifting accents of Var 2’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2015
For his second recording of Debussy’s 12 Etudes (the first was for Arabesque, 2/90), Garrick Ohlsson chooses the iconoclastic blaze...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015
Presenting Bach’s organ music in fresh pastures is no easy feat but the programming alchemy here is highly compelling. The...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2015
Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations is faithful to the original and presents few radical changes. And so I can...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015
Rudolf Buchbinder offers Bach-playing of confidence and intelligence, unafraid to ornament and keen to point up the drama of the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015
The Chatham Saxophone Quartet has certainly advanced the cause of Irish new music for its medium with this recital which,...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2015
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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