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...
Although widely considered a DG ‘house’ ensemble, the Amadeus Quartet started and ended its recording career with Decca (Priaulx Rainier’s...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2004
Klaus Thunemann, who was born in 1937, originally—so the information on this new record tells us— ''aimed at the career...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 3/1983
Blindfold listening tests will thrive on this one, though the fact that Victor De Sabata’s music sounds like everyone and...
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
The name on the cover caught my eye. Organists will know Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) from his Toccata in G (No...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2009
Gorge the Dreamer was the most unfortunate work in Zemlinsky’s, on the whole, unfortunate career. It was already in rehearsal...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/2001
Those of us who relish the barbed provocations of earlier Kagel – Acoustica, Ludwig van and Staatstheater, late ’60s/early ’70s...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 7/2010
Shostakovich jazz music? Taken at face value, this CD is nothing of the sort. Shostakovich's lively and endearing forays into...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/1993
‘Karl Weigl’s music will not be lost. We will return to it after the storm has passed. We will return...
Reviewed in issue 10/2002
Strauss song recitals seem very popular with singers just now. These two provide strongly contrasted approaches to his Lieder. Alexander,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1985
A skull, a tulip and an hour-glass adorn the cover of this release, a grim memento mori but not one...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/1996
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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