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...
Alicia de Larrocha’s and Sir Colin Davis’s Mozart concerto cycle, while rarely less than distinguished, grows in stature with each...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1997
The music of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji acquired mythic status long before his death in 1988 at the age of 96,...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2004
The first performance I ever heard of Faure's Requiem was in Messiaen's church La Trinite, during the obsequies of Nadia...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 10/1990
At the 2003 Martinu Festival in Prague I had the good fortune to hear Bohuslav Matousek and Jennifer Koh give...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2007
With so pathetically scanty a representation of Villa-Lobos's piano music in the catalogues at present, the appearance—however belatedly in the...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1987
At first glance, the work of Tony Palmer and his writer Charles Wood looks like a good, old-fashioned Hollywood biopic,...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 9/2005
The six Trio Sonatas could normally be comfortably accommodated on a single CD. The fact that Naxos spread them over...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/1994
Today, Arcadelt’s claim to fame rests in his madrigals: his first book in the genre was reprinted dozens of times...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/2011
Strong and direct, relying for the most part on broad, steady speeds, Dohnanyi's reading of the symphony has plenty of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1992
These records are not easy to understand or explain. The accompanying notes are less concerned with helping the listener than...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/1990
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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