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...
Not-so-young Gramophone readers may remember Vista’s LP series of Howells’s organ works, issued in the late 1970s and early 1980s,...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 11/1999
Pierre Boulez, during his years at the BBC, was celebrated (or notorious) for his lack of interest in such mainstream...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1995
The Belgian Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) was a prolific composer of orchestral and chamber music, plus a substantial contribution to the...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/2003
This is a very remarkable performance, in spite of an uncertain genesis. In Some comments on Handel's ''Messiah'' which came...
Reviewed in issue 5/1985
This disc of mainly light and lesser items serves well enough as a pendant to Dutton Laboratories' new two-disc set...
Reviewed in issue 9/1994
John Nelson’s “ideal” in recording the Beethoven symphonies, he explains in the CD booklet, “was to represent the man and...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 7/2007
As she demonstrated in London’s Chicago cast, Ute Lemper is a consummate musical star with an engaging line in gamey...
Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 8/2003
In his Fifteenth Symphony, Shostakovich confronts us with a list of irreconcilable, curiouser-and-curiouser “whys”. Why start your symphony with a...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 13/2009
In his time reputedly known as ''the best finger of that age'', Gibbons wrote for the organ with an expertise...
Reviewed in issue 11/1994
‘A bottle in the sea’: the notewriter’s phrase makes one wonder afresh where the recording has been all this time....
Reviewed in issue 10/2001
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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