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...
Swiss violinist Georges-Emmanuel Schneider has the technique to give a good account of this demanding programme and his performances have...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2011
“Solo Works: The ’70s” is not, I admit, a very promising title, evoking as it inevitably does the anaemic vamps...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2011
Piano aficionados may previously have encountered the artistry of Uruguayan pianist Alberto Reyes in a splendid and hard-to-find 1995 Connoisseur...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2011
Tewkesbury Abbey’s two organs are unusual in that they are both large, romantically inclined four-manual instruments not originally intended for...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2011
I’m sure I said in my last classical guitar review that if I heard another recording of Domeniconi’s Koyunbaba, I’d...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2011
The title of this disc may appear oxymoronic but, here, “strength” is of purpose as much as anything else. The...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2011
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was acutely aware of the extremes of fame and obscurity that lay between him (and his...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2011
Back in 1999 the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam invited Bernard Haitink to give a carte blanche series of concerts involving five...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2011
All credit to the festival in Besigheim in Germany for unearthing in 2009 a totally unknown opera by Handel and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2011
Vänskä is undoubtedly a Sibelian of strong instinct, and his Kullervo enshrines an interpretation of extraordinary grandeur and slumbering, runic...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
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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