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...
Schnittke’s marvellously dark-turning-darker Eighth Symphony was his valedictory grand statement, a kind of spiritual “ninth symphony”, which makes this patchy...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 7/2009
For Tim Page, Leonard Bernstein’s decision to make a career in America ‘had the same effect on our native musicians...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2000
The latest volume of Nikolai Lugansky’s Rachmaninov cycle offers a coupling of early and late works, ranging widely through the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2004
Not the least of Olympia’s services to the cause of Mikhail Nosyrev (192481) have been the essays by Per Skans‚...
Reviewed in issue 9/2001
That we at last have a fully satisfactory modern version of Delius's Violin concerto is obviously the main news here,...
Reviewed in issue 7/1985
I have not listed Ilya Stupel’s Danacord recordings for Langgaard’s Seventh and Eighth Symphonies above as Dacapo’s new issues are...
Reviewed in issue 9/2001
The chapel of Christ’s College was not, I’m afraid, on the itinerary of prepared visits to choral evensong in Cambridge...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2003
On CD the irresistibly exuberant Hunting Chorus from Der Freischutz is now added to my select list of demonstration items....
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1985
Any performance of the Requiem that begins as slowly (about twice as slow as Verdi wants it to go) and...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1989
It is a bold pianist who so directly challenges Murray Perahia in this very apt coupling of three Schumann concertante...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
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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