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...
Enrico Onofri believes that Vivaldi’s music has long been misunderstood “because of its easily enjoyable idiom”. He writes that “When...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2006
A cordial welcome to this release, which makes a good impression at once with its sound, recorded in a church...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1989
An endearing “real-time” quality characterises the production values of these 1974 BBC television transmissions, notably in how host Basil Moss...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 13/2007
As can be seen above, Dvorak's Serenade and Krommer's E flat Octet-Partita have appeared before on CD: room has now...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1986
Occasionally one hears performances in the concert hall which create a haunting and indelible memory sadly unrecorded. That is until...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2002
A super-bargain version of Johann Strauss's scintillating operetta, well-recorded in digital sound, complete with substantial dialogue, clearly has a place,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1994
Biber’s “Mystery” or “Rosary” Sonatas are remarkable both for their musical quality and for their extraordinary use of scordatura –...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2011
I well remember the surprise with which in 1991 I learned that a film based on the life of the...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
Born in New York city and now resident in Berkeley, California, Andrew Imbrie (b 1921) penned his 1984 Requiem in...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2000
Although overshadowed by the major figures of his day, Hermann Goetz, who died of tuberculosis in 1876 at the age...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2004
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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