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...
Carlos Kleiber is‚ for me‚ the outstanding Johann Strauss conductor of our time‚ finding grace and subtlety in the music...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/2001
In the many hours of discussion I had over the years with the late Walter Legge, he would quite often...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1985
This disc of sacred pieces by Ferdinando Bertoni takes us down paths hitherto barely if at all trodden by recording...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1989
Borodin (often as scored by other hands, it is true) usually gives every opportunity for a fine orchestra to declare...
Reviewed in issue 5/1985
Eisler's Deutsche Sinfonie, an avowedly anti-Fascist sequence of mini-cantatas and instrumental movements, is his magnum opus. Why then have so...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
Barbirolli was scarcely taking coals to Newcastle when he conducted three performances of the Resurrection Symphony in Berlin in June...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 9/2004
Memo to all choral directors: if you still haven’t been bitten by the Whitacre bug, then beg, borrow or buy...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2010
Mozart’s Salzburg friend and patroness Countess Antonia Lodron was evidently a far more sympathetic figure than her brother, the stern...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2006
Writing in The Symphony (ed. Robert Simpson, Penguin Books: 1967) the late Harold Truscott made out a strong case for...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1996
Vocally speaking, Scandinavia is doing us proud just now. Hot on the heels of von Otter’s Frauenliebe, on which JBS...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1996
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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