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...
This latest recording from the Gabrieli Consort and Players follows the now familiar format in their recordings of a ‘liturgical’...
Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 7/1997
It is a truism that there is no one right way to play a piece of music. But with Ives...
Reviewed in issue 11/1990
''This record is designed as Hungaroton's tribute on the occasion of the seventy-fifth birthday of the great Hungarian conductor, Janos...
Reviewed in issue 12/1983
This is the first of a planned series of three records entitled “Brahms and his Times”, intended, says Johannes Moser,...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2007
Thank heavens for small independent labels. There is a wealth of worthy composers whose music deserves wider recognition and accessibility...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 11/2000
Weber's four sonatas were overdue for a new CD recording, and they have found a fine and sensitive interpreter in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1989
In July 1994 I celebrated Vol. 1 of Francesco Nicolosi’s four-disc survey of Thalberg’s operatic fantasias. That disc was devoted...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/1996
I confess that I’d never heard of Antonio Cifra (1584-1629), for 20 years from 1609 until his death the master...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 3/2011
This recording is not intended as another salvo in the ongoing debate about Chopin’s abilities as an orchestral or chamber...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 6/1997
The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra are the fine period-performance band that gave us such an exuberant account recently on Harmonia Mundi...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2005
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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