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...
Reicha’s chamber music turns up in the catalogue quite often, his copious concertante and symphonic works rather less so. Three...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/2003
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690‑1749) was one of the most talented of the lesser-known Kapellmeisters of the same generation as Telemann....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 13/2007
As a title, The Book of Elements gives little away. But anyone assuming that the music associated with it is...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2004
The surprising highlight of this collection is the attractive Sibelius Petite Suite for brass septet, written at the end of...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2003
A seemingly miscellaneous collection, yet all but one of the pieces have a link: they share the circumstance of having...
Reviewed in issue 12/1985
Such a disc as this one provides an alluring shop window for Teldec's complete Bach cantata series, recently completed by...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1992
''There were no particularly happy moments in my life, no great joys—bitterness has coloured my life grey.'' Such are the...
Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 3/1992
Well, this really is something special, confirming the good impression made by Dunn in the Gramophone Award-winning Robert Shaw set...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1989
Clori, Tirsi e Fileno, an extended cantata, is one of the products of Handel's months in Rome at the palace...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1993
Karajan was a child of the sound recording era, but he never forgot that performing music also has its own...
Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 2/2000
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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