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...
Be honest now: who could possibly have foreseen that we would have had rival budget versions of both Rawsthorne violin...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1998
The musical and expressive concentration of Beethoven’s Bagatelles – involving sudden and violent changes of mood – highlights the composer’s...
Reviewed in issue 11/1996
A new Beethoven sonata cycle is usually a major event, whether in performance or on record. Alfredo Perl is the...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/1997
Trying to describe the difference in sound between Perahia's recent CBS and Brendel's older (1972-5) Philips versions of these pieces...
Reviewed in issue 2/1984
These first reissues in Virgin Veritas’s new Hilliard Edition mark a belated tribute to one of the most enduring names...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1997
Once in a while a performance of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony will descend from on high like a benediction. This performance...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/2009
Those who admire Inbal in Shostakovich will find plenty to satisfy them here. Objectively speaking, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra's sonority...
Reviewed in issue 4/1995
With its easy, songful charm and pastoral “Benedictus” cast as a round (shades here of the “canon” quartet in Fidelio),...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/2010
Among the great conductors closely identified in the public mind with Sibelius (Kajanus, Bee cham and Karajan), Koussevitzky is the...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1990
This recital shows off Mala Punica at their eccentric best. Pedro Memelsdorff’s approach to the music of the late middle...
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
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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