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...
The disc’s title signifies not just that the five secular cantatas for solo voice and strings it contains take pastoral...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2004
As I commented when reviewing the LP recently, the glory of these performances is the orchestral playing, and on CD...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 7/1986
Let me first confess to misgivings about which, if they had proved true, I would have said nothing and simply...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/2010
Re-mastering and the transfer to CD have much improved the sound of these striking performances. As JOC remarked in her...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1984
The first thing to say about this brilliant film is that it is extremely well sung. It became the fashion,...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 4/2008
Pinchas Zukerman's February 1969 recording of the Mendelssohn Concerto was originally issued on the flip-side of an equally engaging Tchaikovsky...
Reviewed in issue 8/1993
An invaluable new recording of substantial works from an important American voice Marvin David Levy is best known as composer...
Reviewed by Lawrence Johnson in issue: 8/2004
The real revelation here is a rehearsal-performance of Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales with the Berlin Philharmonic and dating from...
Reviewed in issue 11/1998
For this latest in their Haydn series the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra have alighted on three works from the years 1778-84,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1994
If you want the edition of the work revised in Italian by Verdi, first performed in 1884, this is your...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/2004
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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