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...
Imogen Cooper’s two previous Mozart concerto releases with the Northern Sinfonia and Bradley Creswick (12/06 and 8/08) have both been...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/2011
Claudio Abbado began his career with Mahler and has been conducting the composer for his entire professional life. The Ninth...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2002
Here are three different issues to mark the centenary of Kirsten Flagstad's birth. To the majority of music-lovers she was...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1995
There are many things to enjoy about this period-instrument Cosi: the convincing sense of style that runs through it, the...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 9/1985
Since the Beaux Arts Trio last recorded Beethoven's Triple Concerto in 1977 (Philips, 4/78—nla) two of its personnel have changed,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1994
The most striking episode in this new Concerto for Orchestra is at the beginning of the finale, or rather the...
Reviewed in issue 1/1997
Stravinsky thought the orchestration of the 1947 Petrushka ''more skilful'', though he admitted that for many ''the original music and...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1988
Comparing these three CDs has been a joy. They are all desirable and certainly distinguished in different ways, and to...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1987
The Maggini Quartet’s tireless exploration of the British string quartet repertoire continues in fine style with this indispensable anthology devoted...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2006
Having included the Adagio alone in his complete Denon cycle of the symphonies (1/88), Inbal now tackles Deryck Cooke's performing...
Reviewed in issue 4/1993
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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