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...
We have long needed a first-rate set of the Borodin symphonies and it would be churlish to deny that Jarvi...
Reviewed in issue 9/1992
Clarinettist and composer Tim Hodgkinson had a well spent misspent youth in Henry Cow, the radical rock band that fused...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 2/2007
Dardanus (1739) was Rameau's third excursion into tragedie-lyrique and Les boreades (1764), his last. Both works contain rich seams of...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1987
In the introduction to the Third Edition (Oxford: 1936) of Percy Scholes's Radio Times Music Handbook, the author mentions his...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1992
‘Art demands of us that we do not stand still.’ Beethoven’s own words as quoted by the Takács to remind...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2002
I have never enjoyed Chenier as much as on this video, another of the 1950s films made expressly for Italian...
Reviewed in issue 10/1997
Simon Keenlyside is the best baritone singer and interpreter of Schubert this country has ever had and is fully the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1994
This disc offers an absorbing tour around the musical world of Heinz Holliger, with first recordings of major works written...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/1998
Russian showpieces like Scheherazade and Capriccio espagnol might seem unexpected repertory for Kurt Masur, by temperament clear-headed and objective rather...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2000
This three-disc set is not all that generous in length by today's standards, when we all tend to hope for...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1987
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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