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...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2003
Readers may recall the fuss when DG proposed releasing bleeding chunks from Claudio Abbado’s Mahler cycle. This however is an...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2009
The message of this release is that Ned Rorem—70 next year, if you can believe it—was on excellent form in...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/1992
Why do we hear so little of Kaja Danczowska? Her spellbinding accounts of these concertos are the equal of any...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/1998
Charm is an elusive thing; I doubt if it can be taught. Singers guilty of laying it on too thick...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 4/1998
‘Play pretty for the people, those who love convenience food and easy-listening snippets’ is the unwritten subtitle of this collection...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1996
Born in Greece but raised in Bulgaria, Ivan Anguélov (a pupil of Markevitch, Sawallisch and Carlos Kleiber) has been forging...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2006
Miss Austen Regrets was shown on BBC1 in March. Unlike the feature film Becoming Jane which told of a romance...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 8/2008
Pollini's DG disc of Debussy's 12 Etudes (3/94) received a mixed reception, praised by some for its unfaltering seriousness and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2000
One of my greatest regrets is not to have visited Bayreuth in my youth to catch this Hollander of 1955....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1997
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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