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...
When a Molter concerto first reached England at the end of the Second World War (one of a set of...
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
Among British fortepianists today, Melvyn Tan is certainly one of the leading lights. This record attests to his formidable technique...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1988
This CD gives a rare glimpse into the exuberant world of the calung (pronounced “chalung”). Originating from an area known...
Reviewed by ssteptoe in issue: 7/1998
As in their earlier set, of Mozart's Paris and Mannheim sonatas for keyboard and violin (5/94), Temenuschka Vesselinova and Chiara...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1994
The first book of A prole do bebê (1918) was written for, and a great favourite of, Arthur Rubinstein (sadly...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2007
Clever though it may be of the technical boys to produce recordings with the widest possible dynamic range, what sensible...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1988
This is the first volume of the Bruckner Archive series, devoted to the composer's less-known music. All the items belong...
Reviewed in issue 9/1985
In the 1950s and 1960s it was not uncommon for recordings of the Italian operatic repertory to be locally cast...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1989
This collection of settings of one of the oldest recorded love-poems explores its manifestations in Sephardic and Hebrew repertories, medieval...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/1998
I have vivid memories of 23-year-old Simon Rattle bounding onto the rostrum at the Royal Festival Hall, on February 2,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2003
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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