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...
As the titles of two of the present works indicate, Revueltas immersed himself in the traditions of the Maya Indians...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1999
A final act of daring in the symphony – the way Anissimov leads up to and lands us in the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1999
There is a fascinating, delightful and entertaining record to be made of some of Berlioz's smaller pieces for chorus. This...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1989
Assassinio nella cattedrale (1958) is the only Pizzetti opera to have been professionally staged in England though others have been...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1998
Seventy minutes of countertenor may not be everyone's idea of fun, but Robin Blaze has the special ingredients to transcend...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2000
In his recent review of Ockeghem’s discography (12/97, page 46), DF deplored the imbalance between the sacred music and the...
Reviewed in issue 5/1998
“A skeleton biography” is how Seiber pupil Hugh Wood describes the three string quartets, and in a highly informative booklet-note...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2010
Michelle DeYoung made a strong impression at the Edinburgh Festival in 1996, when she was billed as a mezzo. By...
Reviewed in issue 5/1999
The front cover of The Gramophone in January 2002 posed the question ‘Can anyone challenge Maria Callas?’ in Bellini’s Norma....
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2005
Maninya is a word made up by Ross Edwards to describe a highly rhythmic style, inspired, he says, by the...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2011
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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