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...
The New World Basset Horn Trio—a German, a Netherlander and an American—are a newish group who play on replicas of...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1990
Fux, chiefly remembered by music students for his theoretical treatise Gradus ad Parnassum, was Kapellmeister at the Vienna Court for...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1996
The history of the string quartet in effect began with these cheerful, compact Divertimenti a quattro, as the composer titled...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1997
Any sort of comparison with Michelangeli is likely to be feared by most pianists, but, as his other recordings would...
Reviewed in issue 7/1985
The Storm, not to be confused with The Tempest, is one of Tchaikovsky's earliest surviving orchestral works—summer holiday homework in...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1994
This is a generous mid-price reissue of three splendidly contrasted Tudor Masses: Tye’s brilliantly scored, but concisely expressed Euge Bone...
Reviewed by prussell in issue: 4/1996
Strange but true: this is only the third commercial recording of A Mass of Life (‘Essential Delius’ if ever there...
Reviewed in issue 5/1997
I was expecting Temirkanov, with his reputation as a showman of the rostrum, to give excitingly exaggerated accounts of these...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1990
Here is a natural and effective coupling of spiritual-minimalist pieces from the Baltic and the Balkans; and how good it...
Reviewed in issue 8/1996
This is the kind of record I have been hoping Murray Perahia would make for some time, one that plays...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/2000
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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