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...
With his comments on the booklet cover picture – Downs in Winter by Eric Ravilious – Adrian Jack pinpoints the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2006
In discussing Heppner's attributes, the insert-note writer on the RCA issue sprays about the names of tenors of the past...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1995
The Piano Concerto is the draw here but it is the shorter pieces that are most interesting. Effectively, this single...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 3/2011
With this issue of the Fifth, Chandos completes its cycle of the seven Bax symphonies conducted by Bryden Thomson and...
Reviewed in issue 8/1989
Copland's orchestral textures are such that they seem particularly to benefit from CD, which here conveys the music's freshness with...
Reviewed in issue 4/1985
Once shamefully neglected, Haydn’s piano sonatas are enjoying a much-needed renaissance on record. After celebrating Marc André-Hamelin’s dazzling and musicianly...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2007
Assorted keyboard works by Haydn are here surprisingly juxtaposed with music by J. J. Fux (1660-1741), whose famed textbook Gradus...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1999
The audience is clearly out for an orgy of diva-worship, applause after every song, so this is a recital to...
Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 11/2007
Frans Bruggen and his Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century continue their excellent Philips series of Haydn symphonies with two works...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1989
This thought-provoking recital unites three sharply contrasted Beethoven sonatas. For David Wilde, the “irrepressible optimism” of the Waldstein is opposed...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2011
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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