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...
Ex Cathedra’s third disc devoted to exploring Baroque music from Latin America showcases the 20‑verse marathon Hanacpachap cussicuinin. Dating from...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2008
Frantisek Tuma (1704-74) was one of many 18th-century Czech musicians who became an honorary Viennese, employed as Kapellmeister to Count...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 1/2009
This generously filled record first and foremost reveals Ousset as an ardent, no-nonsense Chopin player unaddicted to ''Polish arythmia'', as...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1987
Any disc calling itself “complete” anything, especially when that anything is Baroque music, is inviting argument from the anoraks. This...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2008
In these new performances of cantatas by Bach, Joshua Rifkin pursues the one-to-a-part principle which he demonstrated in his Gramophone...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1987
Schumann's G minor Sonata here makes its first appearance on CD in this country. (Martha Argerich's DG recording from 1972,...
Reviewed in issue 8/1988
It must have been difficult to find a suitable programme to follow the Gabrieli Consort’s triumphant recording of Victoria’s Requiem...
Reviewed in issue 8/1996
Recordings of the Brandenburg Concertos are so numerous—and continually proliferating—that a new one needs to offer something special of its...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1987
Like other Decca recordings from Cleveland the quality is splendid, with rich orchestral tapestries, luminous wind timbres and convincing perspectives...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1987
In recent years recording companies and performers have become increasingly ingenious in devising ‘themed’ presentations of early repertories. In place...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 6/1996
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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