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 Italians embraced the transverse flute rather more cautiously than others, but when they did it was with characteristic enthusiasm;...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1994
The collective title of these piano pieces refers to the work of one of Wolfgang Rihm’s mentors, Stockhausen, whose influence...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/2004
Harmonia Mundi can already claim a hat-trick of Dido s: Joel Cohen’s little-known but pioneering reading of 1979 from Boston...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2001
This is emphatically not a reissue on DVD of Ponnelle’s 1970s studio film of the work, conducted by Böhm, rather...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2004
A rare coupling here of Brahms’s most gloriously lyrical symphony with the finest of the four, with its exalted finale,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/2008
The very mention of 'minimalist' music is calculated to produce a pronounced reaction but works by the two composers on...
Reviewed in issue 3/1987
The Chandos Bax discography expands still further with this recording of his two-piano works, all but the first (Moy Mell)...
Reviewed in issue 7/1989
What a fine cycle this has been, spirited and never less than innately musical. Easy on the pocket, too, lest...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1998
Warning: this delightful disc is a veritable parliament of fowls reimagined as a series of ménages à trois, so seductive...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2010
In my review of the CD transfers of the Davis/Solti recordings of Tippett's symphonies (7/90), I hoped it would not...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1994
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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