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...
My familiarity with Philip Ledger’s miniature choral pieces was almost exclusively forged during that numinous period of an hour and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 3/2010
Recorded in warm, full sound, pianist Frank Braley leads an often fiery and impulsive account of Dvorák’s masterly Piano Quintet...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2007
Who among us would claim to have fathomed all the depths of the Diabelli Variations? The work has rightly been...
Reviewed in issue 12/1988
The booklet promises us a ''synthesis of baritone arias'' from Italian opera, which in fact turns out to be far...
Reviewed in issue 8/1993
The weighty brass at the start promises more than is delivered in this serviceable but only intermittently inspired Rimsky issue....
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1999
Of all Bruckner's symphonies, the Second is still perhaps the least well known. This is no reflection on its intrinsic...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1994
By a happy chance, the completion of David Zinman’s Arte Nova cycle coincides with the publication in miniature score of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1999
Rebecca Clarke's beautiful Viola Sonata and her remarkable Piano Trio are deservedly becoming almost repertory pieces these days, but I...
Reviewed in issue 10/1995
Hard on the heels of Marco Polo's issue of symphonies by Frank Corcoran - reviewed above - comes another disc...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 3/2000
‘Richter Rediscovered’ is a twodisc album celebrating a unique pianist in much of his early glory. The producer’s note tells...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
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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