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...
Erkki-Sven Tüür’s Salve regina for male chorus and ensemble (2005) takes the form of a processional, the text set to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2007
La stravaganza was Vivaldi's second published set of concertos. It appeared in about 1713, shortly after his successful L'estro armonico...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1987
Charles Dibdin (1745-1813) was a leading composer for the lighter English theatre during the late eighteenth century, a man of...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1993
Perhaps I should begin by reminding readers that Krysia Osostowicz (of Polish descent) and the Edinburgh-born Susan Tomes are founder...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1988
“Never before had anyone heard the euphony of a single voice to a stringed instrument…which had so much power to...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 4/2011
The Nash Ensemble, with a distinguished line-up including viola-players Lawrence Power and Philip Dukes and cellist Paul Watkins, here give...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2009
After the massive Ninth Symphony, winner of the Gramophone Contemporary Music Award in 1989, Simpson's Tenth is on an even...
Reviewed in issue 10/1991
Many people know Poulenc's Les biches as an orchestral suite, but it is less familiar in its complete form as...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1994
This is the kind of production that makes me feel old. It’s not just that there are now more recordings...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 8/2009
The number of masterpieces for piano and string trio can be counted on the fingers of two hands—two by Mozart,...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 9/1993
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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