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...
It is a pity Jeritza did not sing in the age of video opera. As all accounts and photographs testify,...
Reviewed in issue 4/1994
Virtually all of Shostakovich’s piano music is assembled here, the only missing items being bits of juvenilia that the new...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2007
That Jérôme Savary is director of this Christmas 2007 Dresden production should provide due warning that this is no traditional...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 13/2008
''Liszt's Marches have not so much had an unfair press as no press at all.'' So Howard affirms in his...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1995
Like previous instalments in Hänssler’s Haydn cycle, these superbly recorded performances of five symphonies from the years c1768 to 1776...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2008
Volume 43 of Leslie Howard’s Herculean undertaking completes the Annees de pelerinage (he has already recorded the first volume with...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1997
The Nash Ensemble have recorded all four of these works before, the purely instrumental ones on CD with the same...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1994
To celebrate Fischer-Dieskau’s 80th birthday, Austrian Television, with the performers’ consent, has issued this film made at the 1991 Schubertiade....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2005
Following the conventional trappings of Helmuth Rilling's fourth account, reviewed last month, Frieder Bernius gives us a Mass which neither...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2007
As he explains in a lively booklet-note, José Serebrier has been dissatisfied for years with the conventional orchestral suites drawn...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2004
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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