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...
Neeme Jarvi has already recorded Arvo Part’s Symphony No. 3 to fine effect with the Bamberg Symphony for BIS. The...
Reviewed in issue 10/1999
Simon Standage with The English Concert under Trevor Pinnock's direction made this recording of Vivaldi's 12 Concertos, Op. 8, over...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1988
This single record of Beethoven's songs may go unnoticed in the mighty shadow cast by Fischer-Dieskau's three-record volume with Harmut...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1985
This disc (previously released in Finland with the more accurate title ‘Vigilia’, the Vespers being only the first part of...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2004
The CD of Decca's Tchaikovsky/Dohnanyi coupling displays a subtle but distinct gain in tangibility and focus compared with the LP....
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1986
These are the Vivaldi concertos which ardent recorder players muster when they are determined to leave no stone unturned but...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1988
This poorly recorded version is important mainly for Kleiber Senior’s taut, invigorating interpretation, which carries through the variable score with...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1999
Aubert Lemeland’s Songs for the Dead Soldiers was inspired by images and grateful childhood memories of the liberation by American...
Reviewed by Lawrence Johnson in issue: 10/2005
An agreeable collection‚ and further proof that Respighi was writing fine music long before Fontane di Roma arrived in 1916:...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
There are various hurdles to cross here, sound-wise, but the pay-off is, in purely musical terms, almost beyond reckoning. The...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2001
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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