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...
The ten Invenzioni da camera, Op. 10, by Vivaldi’s contemporary, Bonporti, were first published in Bologna in 1712. These pieces...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1997
You could probably gauge the extent of Per Norgard’s compositional voice from this disc alone. From the bracing Nordic neo-classicism...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/1999
Mireille Delunsch takes top billing, in both quantity (singing in 11 of the 17 songs) and quality. She has a...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: /2000
The fortunes of Gounod’s Faust have had their ups and downs: down, almost to the point of extinction, in the...
Reviewed in issue 6/1999
It’s very good news that Naxos has added Elliott Carter to its American Classics series, beginning with a strong programme...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2004
This disc is another signal success for the BIS team working in Swansea’s Brangwyn Hall. All the varied facets of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/1997
Perhaps a better title for this would have been 'Clarinet Marmalade', after a famous jazz piece whose composer's name eludes...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1993
I was writing recently about another Hyperion record (A66055, 1/83) of Crusell's clarinet music—two of his concertos with Thea King,...
Reviewed in issue 8/1983
Be wary of first impressions. Levine makes all the right noises, that's for sure. His Rhapsody is playful, even puckish...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/1993
This nicely balanced programme offers the two sides of Victoria’s invention in the realm of Masses. The Missa De Beata...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2012
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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