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...
Bach the adapter and re-arranger finds imitators in three of today’s musicians, Hugo Reyne, Pierre Hantaï and Emmanuelle Guigues. They...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2009
Admirers of Faure's piano music who already possess Paul Crossley's survey for CRD have probably also acquired Pascal Roge's recent...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991
This is the second complete recording of Handel's Messiah to be issued by Harmonia Mundi. The earlier one, under Nicholas...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1994
For most listeners familiar with Astor Piazzolla’s music, its sound world centres around the accordion, using the term in its...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2003
An obvious coupling, this trilogy of works inspired by Leon Goossens, but I don't recall it having been done before....
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1989
This is one of those discs impossible to dislike but difficult to get over-excited about. Sarah-Jane Bradley, former member of...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2007
Like the lute music of Kapsberger and the key-board toccatas of Frescobaldi (even more Rossi) these strangely angular and fragmented...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1986
Any veteran like me who might be getting a bit supercilious about the merits of early Verdi will have those...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2007
Unless you insist on the most up-to-date recorded sound, or on buying the individual operas of Puccini's trilogy separately (and...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1993
Siegfried Wagner’s operas have fared well at the hands of CPO and now comes Sonnenflammen, eighth of the 18 he...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2006
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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