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...
These reissues of historic sets of Verdi are welcome on several counts. They have been superbly remastered by Andrew Walter...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2001
There are a growing number of composers of a new generation who are writing music aimed at the ordinary music...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/2010
This is playing in the grand manner. I have associated Krystian Zimerman in the past with refinement rather than bravura,...
Reviewed in issue 11/1988
A few of Mercadante's vocal works have kept a place in the record catalogue, but it is only in the...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1991
Kyung Wha Chung's bright, alert and intense reading comes over the more incisively on CD. The fullness of the Montreal...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1984
Just as London is untypical of England, Tokyo does not epitomise Japan. Osakans, it seems, are more informal, outgoing and...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 8/2003
Andrew Lawrence-King has assembled a thoughtful and attractive rendering of The Play of Daniel. The rhythmic interpretation of the unmeasured...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 8/1998
To judge from current reference books (I haven’t found a single reference to her) Zara Dolukhanova is all but forgotten...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1996
Myrthen have never been that well represented in the catalogue, and the performance by the two young Dutch artists is...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1990
Each time I hear Bridge’s Dance Rhapsody (1908) I wonder how such a rapturously tuneful work can be so shamefully...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2007
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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