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...
The contrast with Lydia Mordkovitch, who offers a similar programme for Chandos, is intense. In big, impassioned climaxes, where one...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1992
Given the daunting structure of the Seven Last Words—eight substantial slow movements plus a tiny concluding presto—you wouldn't expect it...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1991
Tender, solemn, droll, silly and occasionally plain boring, Satie’s piano music has certainly proved its appeal for performers and record...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1996
This is the seventh volume from VAI of live performances of the great Russian pianist. It is sourced from two...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2009
These are most attractive performances. Pascal Devoyon is a thoughtful artist who unfailingly conveys the essential poetry of the music,...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991
While much of Europe was convulsed by the Great War, Prokofiev was composing a ballet to a grotesquely comic folk-tale...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/2004
If, like me, you have known Cyril Scott primarily as the composer of Water Wagtail, you will probably be unprepared...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/1994
Giulini's account of the Seventh Symphony is not, by and large, so impressive as his momentous account of the Eighth...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1987
Naxos have done it again. I have little hesitation in preferring this version among modern, large-scale performances. Morandi brings to...
Reviewed in issue 1/1998
The Second Piano Concerto (2001-02) is one of Aho’s most immediately appealing works. It radiates joy and wanders lyrically around...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 13/2010
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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