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...
The acclaimed percussion virtuoso Kuniko goes it alone, so to speak, in an impressive multitracked performance of Xenakis’s four-movement, 40-minute...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015
The stream of keyboard tributes to Rameau’s 250th anniversary last year continues with Bertrand Cuiller’s two-disc set for Mirare. His...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2015
Wittily entitled ‘Keys to Mozart’, Daria van den Bercken’s disc offers a wide-ranging overview of the piano music. Sparsely pedalled,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015
There’s a familiar scale with eight tones (C-D flat-E flat-E natural-F sharp-G-A-B flat) that Scriabin often used. Yoshihiro Kanno employs...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015
Grieg may not be in the pantheon with the greatest but his freshness of invention continues to give his music...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2015
Kotaro Fukuma is a masterly and refined young pianist who, after the virtuoso challenges of Albéniz (Iberia, 10/12) and Balakirev...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015
It’s not certain if Paavali Jumppanen’s second double-CD release devoted to Beethoven sonatas signifies a cycle in the works, yet...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2015
Writing in his accompanying essay, Russian-American pianist Sergey Schepkin leaves you in no doubt why Bach is at the heart...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015
As with so much mainstream repertoire, the catalogue is so full of recordings – good and bad – that there...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2015
There is delicate ornamentation present here (and not Baroque-specific ornamentation) that is so sparingly used that one would be forgiven...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2015
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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