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...
Nikolai Golovanov was born in 1891, two years before Tchaikovsky’s death, and died in 1953, six months after the death...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/2005
The note with this most enjoyable CD begins by suggesting that the official recognition of Howard Blake, by his award...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1994
These CDs are the first issued in Jarvi's complete cycle of Strauss tone-poems with the SNO. Enterprisingly, Chandos are filling...
Reviewed in issue 10/1987
This admirable performance sounds as immediate and forward as one would expect on a transfer to CD, and it emphasizes...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1985
This is very good value, with consistently fine playing and recording (a digital remastering of LPs), though the Third Concerto...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1986
Johan Wagenaar was a Dutch composer roughly contemporary with Elgar: born in 1862, he died in 1941. He began his...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2010
Some years ago Mitsuko Uchida confessed to me that she had mixed feelings about the complete cycle of the Mozart...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2009
Lasting a provocative 55'20'', this healthy-sounding, beautifully balanced 1977-8 Abbey Road production enshrines what must be about the most expansive...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1998
Fashion has moved on since composers like Persichetti and Dello Joio established themselves with a kind of Hindemithian American neo-classicism....
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 6/1990
To say that Mortensen is a technically accomplished harpsichordist of considerable vitality isn't really to go very far, since we...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1989
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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