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...
No sooner have Mordkovitch and Chandos provided an ideal coupling in a fine modern recording, than Virgin Classics follow suit....
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1990
Pauline Oliveros’s electronic works occupy a stylistic niche between Stockhausen’s pioneering tape pieces and the self-evolving ambient experiments of Brian...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/1998
The glorious Schubert B flat major Trio‚ like Beethoven’s Archduke‚ opens with a great‚ memorable swinging tune‚ yet when the...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
Two of the outstanding Masses of the classical era, but nevertheless very strange bedfellows on this CD, for the performances...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1993
Mark-Anthony Turnage has enjoyed associations with the CBSO, BBC SO and now the London Philharmonic, each resulting in a wealth...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2005
Whichever of these recordings of this remarkable, nay unique work you have listened to last is likely to be the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1997
These performances - taken from two Wigmore Hall concerts from the mid-1990s - include some of Chopin's most sophisticated and...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 11/2002
As Purcell resurfaces after the deluge of recordings in his tercentenary year of 1995, we are tantalizingly reminded in The...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1998
In the last years of Pablo Casals’s career his encores would almost invariably be drawn from Bach’s Solo Cello Suites,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2011
A hitherto unexplored area of Berlioz's output is opened up in this enterprising disc, which gathers together two of his...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1989
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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