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...
With such a wide range of often sung part-songs, catches and glees culled from about three centuries of English music-making,...
Reviewed in issue 9/1985
By the time I first met Segovia in 1948 his pre-eminence in the field of the classic guitar was unquestioned...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1989
Pianist, composer, singer and conductor, the Venezuelan Teresa Carreno was one of the most formidable musical women of the late...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/2000
Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto is here given an unusually lively performance with Paul Watkins and the ECO. Yet the...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2011
Perhaps my expectations were too high but I have to say that I expected greater things from Peter Hill and...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 9/1996
I welcomed Perlman's recording of Khachaturian's vital and tuneful Violin Concerto in its LP form and have enjoyed the CD...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/1985
Osostowicz and Tomes, like Mintz and Bronfman (for Hyperion and DG respectively), offered only the two violin sonatas on their...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1990
When the producer and director of the 1925 silent film of Flaubert's Salammbo asked Florent Schmitt to provide a two-hour...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1994
The Hardanger fiddle of western Norway probably originated in the mid17th century‚ possibly – as Reidar Storaas suggests in his...
Reviewed in issue 8/2002
The Debussy Quartet may indeed be “new interpreters” of Webern, as the title of this series indicates, but they seem...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/1997
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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