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...
In substance‚ the comments in my review of Gary Cooper’s recording of Book 1 (4/01) remain valid here. He and...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
This is very unusual Bach. The Fantasia in C minor has only recently been identified as being by Bach and...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1992
There’s no better introduction to the productive tensions that have fuelled Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s career as a composer than...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2006
Impressed as most listeners will have been by this admirable singer's work in the opera house and on records, the...
Reviewed in issue 9/1990
These two madrigal books could hardly be more different. Book 2 was published when Monteverdi was only 23, and Book...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 3/0
This newest disc in Malcolm Bilson's Mozart concerto series, leaving only two more to go, shows a continuing growth in...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1989
If you had not noticed before that the Musicalische Exequien – the 30-minute funeral sequence Schütz composed in 1636 for...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 13/2011
Having graduated from Karel Ancerl's conducting class at the Prague Academy, the late Zdenek Kosler worked briefly under Bernstein in...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
Pier Luigi Pizzi’s updating of Traviata to occupied Paris, first seen in 2003 in Madrid, might seem gratuitous, but because...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2006
In these difficult times it is perhaps one's duty not to beat about the bush and pretend that a release...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1993
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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