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...
Les Arts Florissants have had Charpentier’s chamber opera La descente d’Orphee aux enfers in their repertoire for at least a...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/1996
After a career that triumphed over unpromising circumstances, Eileen Joyce’s decision to retire from the concert platform while still in...
Reviewed in issue 9/1999
Shot by a sniper on the Somme in April 1918 aged 29‚ Cecil Coles was born in Kirkcudbright in 1888...
Reviewed in issue 8/2002
It is not so very long ago that the idea of playing Mozart on period instruments was regarded as amiably...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/1992
I have not heard the three-disc LP version of which AW writes above but the greater transparency and immediacy of...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1985
‘Julian Bream is probably the most universal guitarist of the 20th century.’ I quote from the inlay booklet accompanying the...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
Here is the second recording within six months of Plácido Domingo in the title-role of Simon Boccanegra, his first onstage...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2011
There’s much to enjoy here. The blend of the two instruments is excellent, and the Salvatore Lagrassa fortepiano, c1815, has...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/2007
In this three-way comparison of transfers the EMI improves on the Preiser to just about the same extent as the...
Reviewed in issue 9/1990
This third instalment in the Goldner’s Sculthorpe series brings us to 2007, including the 14th (1998), the 15th (1999), the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 1/2010
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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