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...
I have had occasion in the past to praise Christian Zacharias in his current EMI series of Mozart concertos, and...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1988
It is difficult to find much enthusiasm for this issue. The sound, of course, has the usual CD virtues of...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1984
The first six concertos of Corelli's Op. 6 with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra directed by Nicholas McGegan were released early...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1991
The tango and the milonga (its predecessor at the top of the popularity stakes in Argentina) were rarely absent from...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
Since most musical dictionaries (even a substantial and usually reliable German one) have not even heard of Joseph Suder, I...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1987
It may seem curious to include what is probably the best known work of Bo Nilsson (b1937) – Frequenzen (1956)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2002
This is the third record within a year including music from the set of five three-part wind divertimentos, K439b. But...
Reviewed in issue 3/1987
The five tracks, imperceptibly linked, make this long stretch of Hildegard’s ecstatic outpouring – 68 minutes and 53 seconds –...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 3/1998
Ullen finds not a little humour in Musica Ricercata, Ligeti’s early but already typical exploration of musical cells and motifs....
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/1999
Labelling a menu of sweetmeats “A la carte” might at first glance seem a ‘trifle’ misleading, and yet in this...
Reviewed in issue 1/1996
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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