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...
Collectors who remember the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra from its records of the late 1950s and early 1960s will have little...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1991
So here’s another welcome dip into the brantub of British Light Music Classics; and the mix is much as usual....
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
The story of Martin?’s penultimate opera – of which the second, more conventional version is given here (albeit in slightly...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2008
It would be hard to conceive of a more delightful and homogeneous collection of music for young people than the...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 11/1987
Alfred Walter continues his Waldteufel series with characteristic professionalism, the Slovak orchestra at Kosice play with warmth and considerable polish...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1996
It might seem perverse of Erato to have sanctioned a recording of the Shostakovich concerto so soon after Maxim Vengerov’s...
Reviewed in issue 1/1996
Symmetry, the cyclic evolution of a musical germ and the idea of birth in the midst of death: all are...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2003
Some recoupling of Gilels's distinguished library of Beethoven piano sonata recordings was, I suppose, inevitable when CD reissues were being...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1986
The two Piano Sonatas, Opp. 53 and 54 of 1804, signalled the beginning of a new phase in Beethoven's compositional...
Reviewed in issue 11/1993
I gave a warm welcome last year to the first CD of overtures Suppe overtures from Kuhn and the RPO...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/1991
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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