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...
Like its predecessor,Volume 3 of Collegium Musicum 90’s survey of Vivaldi’s string concertos offers a varied selection of works which...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2003
Alwyn's representation in the catalogue is growing; the present LP fits happily into the representation in that none of the...
Reviewed in issue 12/1985
Kodaly's rose-tinted orchestrations of Bartok's uncompromisingly erotic Op. 15 (Sz61) make for pleasant listening, but they sidetrack the real heart...
Reviewed in issue 7/1993
All these works are settings of texts by Friedrich Holderlin, but in contrast with Mitsuko Shirai's absorbing Holderlin song recital...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1995
There are already six CD sets of Beethoven's complete violin sonatas, but this is the first to employ period instruments—a...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1989
Castelnuovo-Tedesco's flirtations with 'modernity' were probably prompted by his waning success in Hollywood, where the stylistic tide had flowed past...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1994
Well sung as the Solti/Decca set may be, I find this 1981 recording a far more satisfying and unified performance...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1986
Sarka was the Bohemian warrior maiden expelled from the court of Prince Premysl after the death of Libuse, together with...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1997
Thomas Allen has left the idle hill of summer for the bosky landscapes of Mittel Europa in a recording of...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 9/1990
In February 1953, 17 months after the world premiere in Venice, The Rake’s Progress received its first American production, conducted...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2007
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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