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...
A towering performance of the Kreutzer Sonata; I couldn’t resist the temptation to repeat the experience immediately. Performance is the...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2004
Volume 22 is a vital issue. It documents Hotter at the height of his powers as a young Heldenbariton in...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1996
In 1776, Ferdinando Bertoni (1725-1813) wrote a new setting of the Calzabigi Orfeo libretto for the castrato Gaetano Guadagni, who...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1997
The British ensemble Icebreaker emerged in the late 1980s as one answer to the identity crisis that new music suffered...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 7/2006
Koussevitzky’s 1944 recording of Harold in Italy was the first ever commercially available, and as RL said when an earlier...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1997
Of various surviving broadcasts featuring Erich Kleiber with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, the expertly judged Schubert Ninth issued here...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2008
A passionate Russian temperament on the podium and the LSO in one of its heydays (the 1960s) are good enough...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1994
This is billed as Volume 1 of a complete set, and the series certainly gets off to a cracking start....
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/2005
James Bowman must surely be the finest vocal interpreter of Purcell today. His grasp of sentiment, his sense of timing...
Reviewed in issue 7/1989
Sir Ralph Kohn, born in 1927, businessman and philanthropist as well as dedicated musician, here tackles a formidable collection of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2011
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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