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...
British director Tony Palmer has been making films about music and musicians since the late 1960s, his idées fixes ranging...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2011
Fifteen years after its release on Marco Polo, this remains the only recording of Pizzetti’s quartets, by a Hungarian ensemble...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2011
Many of us, I’m sure, still own First Edition LPs – grey sleeves with round gold labels stuck on the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2011
Arne Garborg’s epic poem-cycle Haugtussa (‘The Maid from under the Mountain’) is a classic of Norwegian literature, its four volumes...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2011
Stoyanova’s second recital disc for Orfeo lies more on the soprano’s ‘home’ territory and includes two arias by fellow Bulgarian...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2012
This 10-disc box is Piano Classics’ most ambitious project to date, a tribute to a pianist who for many years...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012
As perspectives on the Solti/Culshaw enterprise lengthen, and critical reactions are kept alert by the regular appearance of new, or...
Reviewed in issue 8/1998
Only last year, Yakov Kreizberg had been appointed artistic director of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. This splendid Stravinsky album is...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 07/2011
By 1960, ideas of what might constitute orchestral jazz were gathering force. Brubeck and Bernstein’s label Columbia had already released...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 07/2011
In providing us with this vital, keenly played and always engaging new period-instrument Beethoven cycle, Emmanuel Krivine is effectively challenging...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2011
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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