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...
Not a period instrument to be heard, the band is big: brass and timpani in the Oboe Concerto don’t stand...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2007
Each of the four recordings of these Suites covered in my review last month (page 1138) occupies two discs; here,...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1989
Mahler’s score attracted the attention of ‘modernist’ conductors long before Gielen and Boulez. Rosbaud’s radio tape, dating from 1957, is...
Reviewed in issue 3/1999
As London concertgoers discovered during the 1986 Almeida Festival, the works of Arvo Part urgently cry out for attention. Why,...
Reviewed in issue 9/1987
This is the most extensive survey on disc of music by the American composer Peter Lieberson (b1946). Avoiding the piano...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/2002
In answer to all those nay-sayers concerning Alagna’s talents, the tenor here shows, in the most demanding programme imaginable, that...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1998
My reviews of recent records of David Hill at Westminster Cathedral have offered slightly muted praise and I have felt...
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
Two meaty offerings from opposite ends of Sir Malcom Arnold’s career top and tail this stimulating Naxos anthology. Composer and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2011
Excellent soloists from the Barcelona orchestra present two works from the 1970s by the doyen of Catalan composers, Montsalvatge –...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1999
Here are two of the finest Mozart Violin Sonatas, played by two of the finest Mozart chamber musicians, expertly remastered...
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
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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