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...
Robert Dean Smith is the new boy on the block where Heldentenors are concerned‚ and on this evidence‚ very impressive...
Reviewed in issue 11/2001
Babayan clearly commands a wide repertoire. The Messiaen selection offers scintillating pianism but lacks depth; not a problem in Vine’s...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/1998
Light is the element that allies Kaija Saariaho to so many of her Nordic peers; that, plus related things such...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2008
Pires continues her Mozart sonata cycle for DG with two of the composer's first set of six written in the...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1993
No single CD that includes Nielsen’s seven-movement Aladdin Suite – the Danish rival to Grieg’s Peer Gynt for atmosphere and...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 13/2005
In the booklet-notes to this recording Richard Einhorn relates the story behind the work’s composition. It came about after his...
Reviewed by kshadwick in issue: 6/1996
This performance‚ though originally filmed by Clouzot at La Scala in 1967‚ first appeared on Laserdisc (remember that format?) only...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2001
Guitarists have been appropriating lute concertos for years, borrowing from their relations as it were, but to help themselves to...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1985
Those who may wonder whether The Clerks’ Group have an exclusive contract with Ockeghem can put their minds at rest:...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/1998
The opening bars of the Stravinsky Concertino jar so much on this disc with the end of Brubeck’s Chromatic Fantasy...
Reviewed by mharry in issue: 10/1997
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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