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...
Bach Collegium Japan adds an 11th volume to its excellent series of Bach's sacred cantatas. The musical strengths of the...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/2000
This is a marvellous disc—by no means the only marvellous one the Arditti Quartet have produced in recent years, but...
Reviewed in issue 12/1991
Even if you invested in Warner’s boxed Myaskovsky edition, a surprise Award-winner last year, there are grounds for exploring these...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2010
I have a confession to make. When my son was small, he often had trouble falling asleep at night. My...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 5/2009
Various buckets have been dipped into the deep well of seventeenth-century English ballads and dances but few have come up...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1997
Like The Merchant of Venice, The Miserly Knight is nothing if not problematic. It’s a setting of Pushkin, whose faux-medieval...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2005
When Locatelli performed his concertos on tour in the 1720s, he probably played two at most on any given occasion....
Reviewed in issue 1/1995
Don Chisciotte is a fastmoving comic opera‚ loosely based on Cervantes’ international bestseller‚ to a libretto by Giovanni Battista Lorenzi‚...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
No more imperious or mesmeric pianist has ever existed than Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. His psychological complexity is evident at every...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2000
Telemann's connection with Darmstadt is typical of a composer who cast his net widely on the path to becoming Germany's...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/1994
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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