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...
Although the five piano concertos are not of comparable importance to the Martinu symphonies, they are not of negligible interest....
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1995
Last year I reviewed a CD of improvisations by the American cellist FrancesMarie Uitti and‚ using electroacoustic equipment‚ the composer...
Reviewed in issue 9/2002
Having initially feared that Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Angel of Light might be yet another passenger on a rather tired celestial bandwagon...
Reviewed in issue 6/1996
Rimsky-Korsakov's operas are not so well represented in the catalogue that one can afford to give anything but a welcome...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1995
Christopher Maltman follows his superb Dichterliebe (5/01) with an equally authoritative and deeply felt reading of the Heine Liederkreis. This...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2003
I don’t know whether Poulenc ever read any Jung‚ but he was certainly in close touch with his anima. His...
Reviewed in issue 1/2002
From this most sentient of partnerships of Timothy Hugh and Yonty Solomon comes a release of vivid presence: the first...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 9/1994
The genesis of Bach's great Reformation cantata, Ein feste Burg goes back to 1715 when it was performed at Weimar...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1985
These are all modern digital recordings made in the Reduta Concert Hall in Bratislava in 1989. They are part of...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1991
Ludwig Güttler (b1943) has established a reputation in Germany for his thrillingly focused piccolo trumpet sound‚ not least in his...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
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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