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...
Haydn’s many folksong arrangements for the Edinburgh publisher George Thomson were a lucrative sideline of his old age. A decade...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2008
Janet Hilton's new record couples two of the best, and most attractively complementary, twentieth-century clarinet concertos with what at the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1988
Remembering his first recording of Gaspard de la nuit (Decca SXL6215, 1/66), a new Ravel programme by Ashkenazy is an...
Reviewed in issue 6/1985
Matthew Best uses for this recording of the Requiem either John Rutter's reconstruction of the pre-publication state of Faure's score,...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1989
It is a long time since instrumental virtuosi were expected to provide much of their own repertoire. Though it was...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2003
These well filled discs include all four of the short Masses that Bach composed in the 1730s. Consisting of just...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 8/2008
This month I am almost embarrassed by riches, with the arrival of the fifth (!) complete recording of what I...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1987
Candidates for inclusion on a disc of music concerning the Blessed Virgin Mary would seem to stretch almost to infinity...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/2011
Having responded happily to the fresh air and brisk tempos that David Zinman has consistently brought to Beethoven throughout this...
Reviewed in issue 7/1999
I know of no tougher proposition in contemporary music than a programme of unrelieved Xenakis. Even the insert-note writer speaks...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1993
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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