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...
Albeniz on the guitar is neither a new nor an inappropriate concept, ever since Albeniz himself set the seal of...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1993
Let me deal firstly with questions of sound quality, since those who investigate this set will have to exercise some...
Reviewed in issue 3/1994
When earlier this year Bernard Haitink completed his stint at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, there was some surprisingly...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2002
It is astonishing what a contrast there is between Solti's recordings of the same symphony with the same orchestra only...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1989
Love him or hate him, Pogorelich guarantees a response. Chopin for the faint-hearted this is not; original, provocative, challenging, daring,...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 4/1999
I have no hesitation in saying that this is one of the most satisfying, finely executed discs of Schumann interpretation...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2000
Here once more, but in a new CD format, is Zoroastre, Rameau's penultimate tragedie-lyrique. Readers who bought the earlier CD...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1990
There has of late been a good deal of acrimonious discussion among seasoned collectors about the relative merits of different...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1992
This was a record we needed. In his note, Peter Holman makes the good point that Peter Philips is perhaps...
Reviewed in issue 1/1989
Valery Gergiev’s approach to Shostakovich’s most notorious symphony seems to be to let the drama take care of itself and...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2003
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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