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...
On Radio 3's ''Music Weekly'', if I remember rightly, Graham Barber suggested that Reger's organ music only had a reputation...
Reviewed in issue 11/1987
Many of Erwin Schulhoff’s concert works suggests a dramatic gift, but this is the only opera that he completed. Flammen...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 1/1996
Queen Anne celebrated her 48th and penultimate birthday on February 6th, 1713. Handel probably composed his ode, Eternal source of...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1989
One thing this series should be seen clearly to have done is to knock on the head once and for...
Reviewed in issue 3/1995
Both the Eighth and New World show the inimitable Halle/Barbirolli partnership at its most inspirationally fresh, and the enormously characterful...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1998
Judith Weir’s first large-scale work for the theatre, composed in 1986-87, is an assured demonstration of in-debted independence. An enterprising...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2000
It would be tempting but absurd to dismiss this finely played, deeply considered performance as unidiomatic. It is, however, on...
Reviewed in issue 12/1994
Trevor Harvey, writing in January, found the earlier in bernstein's Schumann cycle overblown and too overtly expressive, though as I...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1986
What a fine idea it would be, if a conductor existed who had the patience and expertise to carry it...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2004
Kipnis has been unaccountably neglected on CD, and since EMI have been remiss in ignoring him this Preiser reissue is...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1990
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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