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...
Performed on the first days of the new millennium, this Pilgrimage volume has an especially candid coherence about it. These...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2009
Like the traditional understatement of the British, cool Gallic reserve is all very well, but can be carried too far....
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1986
Anyone seeking evidence of how keenly Martha Argerich can adjust her personality to suit the interpretative preferences of her colleagues...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 6/2009
The “inexpressible delight” experienced by the Earl of Shaftesbury when he attended a rehearsal of Berenice was not shared by...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2010
The note in the leaflet begins: ‘Today’s audience often find it difficult to comprehend what makes Vincenzo Bellini’s operas remarkable’....
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2004
This is special, controversial, perhaps, but special. I've not heard the up-and-coming young Austrian conduct Mahler before hope I will...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1988
Pro Organo, two minutes’ worth of harmless and innocent tranquillity, opens this second volume of Kevin Bowyer’s Alkan cycle, but...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/2008
My review of Abbado's 1985 recording on DG made much of its warmth. Bathed in Italian sunshine, it is a...
Reviewed in issue 8/1987
The CD booklet calls The Music Teacher an opera, but when this collaboration between composer Allen Shawn and his brother,...
Reviewed by Lawrence Johnson in issue: 9/2008
Almost by definition, no pianist is going to attempt the Debussy Etudes who is not already impressively endowed with musicianship...
Reviewed in issue 9/1990
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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