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 captivating disc sandwiches a selection of the more popular Lyric Pieces and four of the Slåtter between the composer’s...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2014
The Montenegro-born classical guitarist Milo≈ Karadaglić is in many ways the ideal interpreter of Rodrigo’s brand of Spanish musical nationalism....
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2014
You could say, with some justification, that many pianists who excel in Haydn also excel in Prokofiev, where similar qualities...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2014
Beethoven shows up at Bonn Station in 1970 to survey how the culture industry is marking his bicentenary. That delicious...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 3/2007
This is a historic issue of modern classics which one might expect Barenboim to record again in Chicago. It dates...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1994
This selection of arias and choruses is an unashamed vehicle for the voice of Dame Kiri; and Handel, fluttery figuration...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1986
Of the Venetian Marcello brothers, Benedetto is the elder and the more original. He came from the sort of ‘nobile...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2000
There seems to be only one actual serenade here (Gounod's), and that sounds more like a lullaby, which it partly...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2000
If you crave the interpretative freedoms of yesteryear, lend an ear to Temirkanov's Tchaikovsky. At times, I wondered whether this...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1994
For their latest offering, Capilla Flamenca place some of the Ars subtilior’s most famous pieces (those by Ciconia, Cordier and...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/2005
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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