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...
Herman Galynin (found as German Galïnin in New Grove) was a pupil of Myaskovsky and Shostakovich in the 1940s. His...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 13/2008
Writing in Early Music a mere four years ago, John Milsom expressed the hope that the impending completion of the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/1997
Not the least notable aspects of this CD are the two works, both dating from 1990, that launched their composers’...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 2/2009
Perhaps enough has already been said about the occasionally disturbing mis-match between sound and vision that can occur when an...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1989
Frank Huang is a winner of many international prizes, culminating in his triumph in the 2003 Naumburg competition, America’s oldest...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2004
The EMI booklet correctly describes Prince Igor as an opera in a Prologue and four acts. However, the recording leaves...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1990
Despite my reservations about his recent Don Giovanni which I reviewed in October, let me say without more ado that...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1987
By accident I came to be listening on consecutive days to two recital records, each by a bass. Yesterday it...
Reviewed in issue 12/1991
In June 1939, Sir Adrian Boult travelled to New York to direct two concerts at Carnegie Hall as part of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2003
Serebrier is not only one of those prominent conductors who takes the opportunity to launch his own music, however tempting...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 13/2003
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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