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...
Few composers of any century can have been so much written about and yet so little performed as Josquin Desprez....
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 3/1984
Never before have Corelli's 12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6 been so plentifully represented on disc. This new set from Ensemble...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1992
Here is a useful coupling. These duettists were new to me, but they are quite well represented in the current...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1994
These are excerpts from the more than 150 live concerts broadcast by Boston’s public television station WGBH between 1955 and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2011
It is now 20 years since the Vivaldi scholar, Michael Talbot by chance discovered these 12 violin sonatas in Manchester's...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1994
Handel always had a wonderful feeling for the human voice, and more than doubly wonderful when it comes to two...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/2004
These four concertante pieces actually make two contrasting pairs rather than a mosaic. Ustvolskaya and Gubaidulina are the two prophets...
Reviewed in issue 8/1996
I had great difficulty here getting beyond the relative crudeness of both recording and execution. Given the quality of competition,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1989
Sessions’s first five symphonies are already on CD so the addition of three more is a real breakthrough for his...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1996
Here is another pleasing disc in this Mozart series, recorded in Budapest and available with an attractive super-bargain price tag....
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1995
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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