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...
The most interesting piece here is Hamelin for solo cello and narrator, though the present recording omits the narration. Composer-conductor...
Reviewed in issue 11/1999
There is a tangible sense of occasion about this which makes it clear why so many people were ‘greatly stirred’...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/2004
David Briggs is an unashamed admirer of the school of 20th-century French organists/improvisers/composers and the influence of Dupré, Duruflé, Langlais...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 8/2010
Now a composer of international standing, Peter Eötvös was long known primarily as a conductor of 20th-century repertoire, the fastidious...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2006
This is the most satisfying solo disc Auger has made to date. Perhaps, not surprisingly, the challenge of Morike and...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1992
If my count is correct this makes the twenty-third version of this opera on my shelves, a fair comment on...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1996
A nobly characterized and finely paced Brahms First from this Basle-born conductor (I recall with enormous pleasure a toweringly cogent...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1998
Advertised as the complete Caruso, using the NoNoise technique, the Bayer edition is neither complete nor noiseless, and one is...
Reviewed in issue 11/1990
In the normal run of things I would have well and truly castigated any CD manufacturer who dared put out...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2007
A flyweight among heavyweights perhaps, but Segerstam is not to be discounted. Any conductor with a hand as firm as...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1992
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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