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...
Three of these five items last appeared on a four-LP HMV set devoted to Boult’s classic post-war Elgar recordings with...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1997
As we discover almost monthly, there is a great deal of 'light' music by Shostakovich—much of it excellent, some indifferent....
Reviewed in issue 5/1995
“You are awful – but I like you.” The late Dick Emery’s catch-phrase was what first came to mind when...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1997
This curious recital views Venice from a variety of perspectives; romantic or sinister, as a city of dreams or nightmares....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2001
The monochrome medium of Lieder, for many music-lovers still something of an acquired taste, is not one automatically associated with...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 2/2004
Over the course of the last 12 years Simon Preston has been recording Bach’s organ music for DG, and while...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: /2000
The title ‘Nuove musiche’ is sure to outrage early music purists but there’s nothing ‘new’ here unless it’s a recognition...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 6/2006
Capel Bond, born in Gloucester in 1730, spent his working life in the West Midlands, where he was organist of...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1993
This has always been one of the best recorded performances of the 1901 score of Faure's Requiem (when it first...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1989
Lydia Mordkovitch is a Russian pupil of David Oistrakh who now lives in England; Marina Gusak-Grin has also left her...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1987
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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