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...
Just as Philips presented the set of the Beethoven piano sonatas played by Alfred Brendel in a specially attractive package...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1985
The first German baritone to record Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel? Only in the occasional over-stressed syllable does Dietrich Henschel...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 9/2006
New recordings of the Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh Symphonies complete what must be regarded as an historic set of performances,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1989
The 11th volume of Ton Koopman’s complete series of Buxtehude’s works (the fourth of “Opera omnia” to include vocal music)...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2010
This commemoration (not ‘celebration’, Archiv!) of the 300th anniversary of the death of Biber is subtitled ‘In the midst of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 2/2005
These three serenades, cassations or divertimentos (the titles seem to have been fairly freely interchangeable) were all written in Salzburg...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 10/1985
I had mixed feelings about Olivier Baumont's recording of Rameau's complete solo harpsichord works (Adda, 5/90). Technically he is an...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1993
For a composer without an anniversary (though he was without doubt at the height of his powers 200 years ago),...
Reviewed in issue 7/1988
Although Uuno Klami’s relatively early death in 1961, aged 61, deprived Finland of one of its senior figures, his reputation...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2003
A very generously filled Double Decca gathers some of Vladimir Ashkenazy’s Prokofiev recordings into a most enjoyable programme. Four symphonies...
Reviewed by jjolly in issue: 11/2002
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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