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...
Jonas Forssell is well known in his native Sweden and in Denmark for his musical stage works, in particular his...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2005
The expatriate Russian pianist Semion Kruchin gives solid performances in this programme of Russian masterpieces, while that elusive element of...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 5/2003
It’s heartening to see this Chandos series of British film music gathering pace with both recent releases of music by...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 3/2001
I’m not generally a fan of recital CDs devoted to a single character or mood, but this album certainly makes...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2007
Here is a special treat for Wagnerians of all ages. As the more experienced among us have long averred, Wagner...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1992
This recording, made in 1954, and now coming up for the third time (as it were), has something of a...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1993
This is an unashamedly indulgent concert‚ in Gidon Kremer’s words ‘an attempt to set Mozart in the frame of our...
Reviewed in issue 6/2002
If your main priorities in Tchaikovsky concertos are visceral excitement, barnstorming virtuosity and nifty tempos, then this is probably not...
Reviewed in issue 11/1996
When these Vienna sets first appeared round the time of the celebrations in 1956 of the bicentenary of Mozart's birth,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1994
In juxtaposing music from the first and last decades of Weill's compositional career this disc contributes further towards scotching the...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/1988
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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