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...
Here is a fine, enterprising recital to delight and above all surprise those accustomed to Harold Schonberg’s image of Moscheles...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2004
As with previous volumes in Hyperion's “Organ Fireworks” series, the programme covers a wide range of moods and styles, from...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 5/2008
The Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck's dates are 1886—1957, so this record can be taken as slightly anticipating the centenary of...
Reviewed in issue 9/1985
Like Maazel's other Telarc recordings made in Cleveland, this brings a brilliant performance and brilliant recorded sound, one which interpretatively...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1985
If you're looking for a big-hearted, quasi-nineteenth-century view of this work, you may warm to Bernstein's 'old-fashioned' reading. As one...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1989
If you have a lurking feeling that conductors are often redundant or even, as the violinist Carl Flesch once averred,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1993
“Jamais deux sans trois” had I ventured when Crawford Young’s second volume of late fourteenth-century secular music appeared with Arcana...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/1998
In the context of recordings Pelleas has nearly always been a fortunate opera, so that competition has remained keen, with...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 7/1997
The Turkish composer Ahmed Adnan Saygun, now aged 82, studied in Paris with d'Indy in the late 1920s and later...
Reviewed in issue 8/1985
Jan Dismas Zelenka is an extraordinarily intriguing figure: some five years senior to Bach, and a Dresden court and chapel...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 9/2003
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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