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...
Older collectors will recall the impact that these records made on their appearance in the late 1940s—and what marvellous and...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1985
Record companies should be applauded for their valuable contributions to a growing interest among performers and audiences in the music...
Reviewed in issue 6/1995
“One of my chief pleasures is to hear Till and Don Juan on the wireless, conducted by yourself. What a...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/2009
Of these four CD transfers, the finest in terms of recorded quality are unquestionably Abbado's and Tilson Thomas's Abbado's LP...
Reviewed in issue 11/1988
Both these performances are central to any discography of the Requiem. Toscanini and Serafin had the work in their bones....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1995
Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma, was the powerful favourite, or valido, of Philip III of Spain,...
Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 1/2003
The Olympia coupling of Kancheli’s Fourth and Fifth was one of my specially selected recordings in my survey of symphonies...
Reviewed in issue 7/1996
All but two of Allan Pettersson’s 17 symphonies have been recorded, and some are available in more than one version....
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1998
Listen through pretty atrocious sound (including a few dropouts) and you can feel yourself present, in the case of Gotterdammerung,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1999
Elliott Carter has penned a number of short ‘tribute’ pieces over the past two decades; their pithy concentration of means...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 11/2002
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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