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...
Both these recordings are contained in the rival boxed intégrale – and now Gramophone Award-winner – of 16 CDs from...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2008
How remarkable that two such delectable concertos should be receiving their world premieres on disc. Unapologetically romantic and accessible, those...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2007
Solo piano music, we are often told, was not Tchaikovsky’s happiest medium, in terms of either musical or idiomatic inventiveness....
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/1996
Deryck Cooke declared, famously, when this set appeared on LP that it was the ''greatest gramophone event of the century''....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1991
This superb recital of two sharply, indeed mischievously, opposed American sonatas follows Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s celebrated Warner Classics disc of the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2004
Performed for Czech Radio over five separate days in June 1973 this cleanly-recorded Ma vlast is among the noblest now...
Reviewed in issue 4/1993
Rather against my will, and indeed against my better judgement, I found myself guiltily enjoying this recording. There’s so much...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 7/2005
The record is distinguished by absolutely splendid guitar-playing (in the booklet's photograph Stein-Erik Olsen looks as if he actually enjoys...
Reviewed in issue 1/1989
Cherubini was born (in Florence) in 1760, four years after Mozart, and lived until 1842 when Beethoven had been in...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 12/1985
This is the second boxed set within the last 18 months to offer the somewhat unusual (and not especially ‘collectable’)...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1996
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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