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...
Claire Chevallier plays this Erik Satie recital on a seven-octave 1905 Érard piano. “Satie bathed in a rich sound world,...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2009
At first I did not think I was going to get on with Masaaki Suzuki’s recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations....
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1998
In September I welcomed Previn's CD of A Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music (which is absolutely complete) on EMI, rating...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1987
Generally reliable music-making that smacks of careful preparation but lacks excitement. Tempos tend to the slow side (there is nothing...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/1998
Bertini manages to combine an eager, joyful approach to these two scores with a feeling of warmth and mellowness. In...
Reviewed in issue 6/1990
Though Pearl presents this as the first CD transfer of this 1949 recording, it has already been made available by...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/2001
It was not my intention to listen through this set at one sitting, but like the reader who couldn't put...
Reviewed in issue 8/1993
Koechlin was a pupil of Faure and a teacher of Poulenc and Milhaud, helped Ravel and Schmitt to found the...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1990
Every so often a work appears that for sheer size breaks its mould: Beethoven’s Eroica, Mahler’s Third Symphony, Brian’s Gothic,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2003
Feelings will run high on this one. Evgeni Kostitsyn’s 9/11 piece layers the Latin Requiem texts with proclamations by George...
Reviewed by Arved Ashby in issue: 13/2003
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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