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...
Another true Boult classic. This 1952 account of the London remains amongst the finest ever committed to disc, possessing a...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1994
Here are two towering if sharply contrasted performances recorded in Paris in 1967 and 1970 set side by side in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2003
This generous disc of keyboard works falls squarely on the shoulders of the kaleidoscopic organ of the Pieterskerk in Leiden,...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2003
Brahms himself made the two-piano arrangement of the accompaniment for his German Requiem but I cannot think that he would...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2006
Violinists are becoming more proprietary towards work which we believe that Bach originally wrote for their instrument. A good thing....
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1987
If it's Continuum you're after, hard luck. Ligeti, perhaps tempting fate, specifies that the piece should not last longer than...
Reviewed in issue 11/1989
A Delius festival without Beecham? Strange thought, but no composer's wagon should be hitched to one conductor's star, and it...
Reviewed in issue 11/1988
Arcadi Volodos makes such infrequent visits to the recording studio that rarity value manufactures an extra frisson of anticipation with...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2007
Here is another classic set happily refurbished by EMI. Indeed, together with the Werther recorded some 20 years earlier, it...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1990
Liuwe Tamminga continues his fascinating investigation of early Italian keyboard music with this anthology of ricercars from the sixteenth and...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 6/1999
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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