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...
Marie-Claire Alain has contributed so generously to the discography of organ music that it would be invidious to point to...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 13/1997
Here's another historic Britten recording successfully transferred to CD, hopefully the two subsequent church parables will follow in due course....
Reviewed in issue 9/1989
DG’s two-disc tribute is rightly called ‘The Incomparable Rudolf Serkin’. ‘A passionate puritan’ (as Jeremy Siepmann tells us in his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2003
During the 15th century the lute emerged as a solo instrument in its own right and had therefore to assemble...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/2000
A friend who arrived while I was playing through this set, and whose knowledge of music was limited, said: ''That...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1992
Se la face ay pale remains Dufay’s most approachable Mass – very much a tune with accompaniment, one that is...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/2009
Seta Tanyel’s first Moszkowski recital (10/95) received a warm response from BM, whose wish for more is fulfilled here. While...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/1996
Marios Papadopoulos plays Janacek's sonata with a gentle, romanticizing melancholy that is nature can well encompass, even if such an...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1985
A valuable recording, the only other version on the Gramophone Database being from 1958, and (though under Kempe) the singers...
Reviewed in issue 9/1999
Here is Volume 6 of Naxos’s continuing Moiseiwitsch series, the unfolding of a legend in the best possible transfers taken...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2003
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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