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...
It is some three years since the release on disc of another performance of Alessandro Scarlatti’s Christmas piece Abramo, il...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1997
Howard Skempton’s solo clarinet Call (1983), heard on “Surface Tension” in a sensitive reading by John Corbett, tells me that...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 5/2011
This monumental collection of Scott’s piano works, including arrangements, ends with the ninth CD (some previous volumes have been double...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/2009
The cover photograph of a snowy St George's Chapel and a programme of pieces based largely on melodies associated with...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1999
This LP is called ''American Festival'' and is in fact an American sampler, the most predictable elements of which are...
Reviewed in issue 5/1984
Handel composed Dixit Dominus in Rome in April 1707 shortly after he had turned 22. Marcus Creed’s blistering performance is...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2009
These CDs come as part of an ambitious series that Neeme Jarvi is undertaking with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra to...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1984
No other 20th-century composition – nothing by Strauss or Scriabin, nothing by Hollywood’s finest – outdoes the sublime earthiness of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2000
Tasso's tale of Armida, the temptress with supernatural powers, used to attract composers, librettists and opera house impresarios by the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1991
Indelible confirmation that, at least as far as music is concerned, 'small is beautiful' and that in terms of quality,...
Reviewed in issue 3/1995
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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