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...
Bach created the Easter Oratorio for Easter Sunday 1725, although some of the music was shrewdly parodied from a secular...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 5/2011
Jansons's EMI Mussorgsky concert was recorded in the Oslo Konserthus, the same hall where Chandos recorded his highly successful set...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1990
Most of the songs in this recital belong to the genre of domestic music-making, often at a high level of...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1998
All music-lovers know well that inspiration for Brahms's two clarinet sonatas came from the playing of Richard Muhlfeld, principal clarinettist...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1993
Rinaldo Alessandrini has always taken risks, and mostly they have paid off. Here he shows characteristic courage in deciding to...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 3/2000
How well these two composers complement each other in this programme of some of their choicest word settings. Parry's richly...
Reviewed in issue 9/1987
Originating in Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian, this opera concentrates not on the novel’s central character of Jeanie Deans but...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2004
This is a mainly successful attempt to present Clerambault's Livre d'Orgue (c1710) in an appropriate context, that is, placing the...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1995
This is a recording of exceptional interest. Beneventan chant represents an area of early liturgical music about which, until recently,...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1994
Written when he was 30, Brahms's Piano Quintet is a young man's music, but along with youthful impulse and passion...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1991
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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