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...
Yutaka Sado secures a dashingly committed, finely disciplined account from his assembled Radio France forces of what remains surely the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/1999
All three suites are here; in succession, not mixed. This is customary today, and sensibly; for such a succession is...
Reviewed in issue 8/1983
This seems something of a contrived issue. The Concerto in A minor was written for a treble recorder and viola...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1988
There have been a couple of rather exciting records recently of symphonies Vanhal symphonies; but this disc, though pleasant enough,...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 11/2000
The choral director Peter Phillips has proposed that if it were possible to hear 15th-century singers, the results might strike...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/2009
It may seem odd that a corpus of piano music should have waited so long to be recorded, but that...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/2001
The northern and southern Italian madrigal traditions meet in the person of Sigismondo d’India. The date of publication of this,...
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
Since the death in 1985 of his former teacher Hilding Rosenberg, Ingvar Lidhohm (b. 1921) has been the dominant figure...
Reviewed in issue 9/1993
With reticent orchestral sound and a weird synthesis of the prosaic and the overstated, this is not an interpretation of...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 4/2010
Unaffected and thoughtful performances that well deserve another lease of life in the new medium. the C major Quintet is...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1987
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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