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...
Michael Collins here follows up “The Virtuoso Clarinet” (12/10), his first disc as an exclusive Chandos artist, with this contrasted...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2011
Jarvi's continuing cycle of the Prokofiev symphonies with the SNO is proving to be one of the most absorbing and...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1986
Lovely, lovely record, and that wretched, inevitable little word ‘but’ had better be admitted immediately and sent on its way....
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2000
I'm not sure that Op. 44 No. 1 in D or No. 3 in E flat count amongst the very...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 8/1993
Mid-nineteenth-century American WASPS were, as Richard Jackson puts it in his lengthy and scholarly notes to this issue, ''eager to...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 2/1994
This recording culminates in quite the most exciting account of Ravel’s La valse that I have heard, the electricity of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2008
For its debut on CD, Ariadne auf Naxos receives a bright, clear DG recording, notably well balanced and in a...
Reviewed in issue 5/1987
By the end of 1991 (Prokofiev's centenary year) we're going to be so spoilt for good Prokofiev recordings that it's...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/1991
These are safe and dependable performances of music that cries out for greater romantic ardour and poetic commitment. Safety does...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2010
Sir Simon Rattle's Bartokian credentials have never been better displayed on disc, while this particular version of The Miraculous Mandarin...
Reviewed in issue 1/1995
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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