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...
Sinfonia Classica, five years old and based in England’s West Country, have struck lucky with director Gernot Süssmuth, long-experienced in...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 7/2008
“Haydn and the Art of Variation” is Carole Cerasi’s title for her latest release; each of its four sonatas contains...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2010
The only work of Józef Wieniawski (1837-1912) I’d heard before these was his Piano Concerto issued on an early (1987)...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2009
This is live music-making at its finest. The programme opens with Daphnis et Chloe, and Pretre, who has this music...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
In a confrontational note accompanying these discs, Pearl's producer Allan Evans claims that previous attempts to present Schnabel's Beethoven on...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1994
Readers of Digby Anderson's occasional Spectator column ''Imperative Cooking'' will know that you can buy a wonderful variety of fresh...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1994
Finghin Collins's first volume in Claves's complete cycle of Schumann's piano music (A/06) may be a hard act to follow...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2007
Anyone inspecting the ranks of young American pianists back in the early 1960s will have encountered a wide array of...
Reviewed in issue 3/1999
''Well worth waiting for'' was LS's verdict on the original LP issue, and as much can be said again now...
Reviewed in issue 11/1988
In the present wave of Satie fever, with pianists eagerly queuing up to record his complete piano works and many...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1991
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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