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...
Trevor Harvey gave the LP equivalent of Stern's coupling a lukewarm reception and certainly Stern's timbre is but a pale...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1986
The growing representation of Magnard in the catalogue seems to be prompting some welcome interest in his friend the Breton...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1987
You are a talented and respected composer in your late thirties, living in Frankfurt. Your apartments are over the Stock...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2000
This is as expertly shaped and directed a performance of Rossini’s Stabat mater as you could wish to hear. Indeed,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/2003
It can't be disputed that the quality of piano playing offered by these three records is of high class. Indeed,...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 10/1983
There have been some fine recordings of the Britten Suites in recent years, and Paul Watkins’ is certainly among them....
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2004
It is an attractive coupling having the great E minor Violin Concerto in tandem with the youthful D minor, but...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1986
As a frontispiece for the insert-notes, imperious Lilli stands, one hand held hieratically aloft, the other brandishing the portentous goblet...
Reviewed in issue 3/1996
This disc, Vol. 3 of the Coull’s Schubert series, has similar virtues to their fine account of the A minor...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/1998
Perhaps the insularity of the quotation would not have appealed that much to Delius, or Holst or Warlock; but fortunately...
Reviewed in issue 10/1988
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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