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 rich and rewarding recital makes out a good case for better knowledge of Polish song in the West. Even...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1999
The principal virtue of this release is to introduce Palestrina's relatively little-known Mass Lauda Sion to the CD catalogue on...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1994
The Beethoven Triple and the Brahms Double make a very satisfactory coupling, and CBS have already harnessed the two works...
Reviewed in issue 12/1990
This new Creation, taped, like all Bruggen’s recent recordings, at a public concert, certainly has its points. But too often...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/1996
By reallocating the four Bang on a Can performances included in ‘Steve Reich: Works 1965-1995’ onto a single CD, Nonesuch...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: /2000
Everything Howard Shelley does here is intelligent, shapely and sensitive, and a good deal of careful thought has gone into...
Reviewed in issue 4/1991
These live performances give a vivid impression of Du Pre’s spontaneity. There’s a feeling of living the music as it...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/2001
Trio Zingara's most widely heard recording to date has been a version of Beethoven's Triple Concerto, under the baton of...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 5/1990
Daniil Shafran is one of the century’s most fiercely individualistic instrumentalists, a formidable technician whose recital appearances (rare though they...
Reviewed in issue 10/1996
What more appropriate orchestra to record the three Roman colour-scapes of Respighi than Rome’s greatest orchestra under its music director,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield 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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