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...
All this talk of Schumann’s stodgy orchestral writing…Rubbish, I say! Evidence for the defence is simple: keep the orchestra slim...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2007
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a chamber opera based on Oliver Sacks's book of the...
Reviewed in issue 11/1988
Hakan Hardenberger's second major collection of trumpet concertos for Philips suffers from one drawback only: the two best concertos for...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1991
Paul Hillier continues his top-class ‘Baltic Voices’ series with a compilation that embraces Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland. It...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 2/2006
To most, the composer Benedetto Marcello - a Venetian contemporary of Vivaldi - will probably be more a name than...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2006
These Kansas City performers have really taken John Corigliano’s setting of Dylan Thomas’s poem, Fern Hill, to heart by naming...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 3/1997
The trouble with confining this selection to so-called ''Songs of Desire'' is that it limits the range, more than such...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1995
Recorded live in Zurich’s Tonhalle in April 2010, this is David Zinman’s first such project during his 16-year tenure at...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2011
It's unfortunate that Mozart let it be known that he had no liking for the flute, for this has led...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1984
Glenn Gould contemplated recording Haydn's piano sonatas as early as 1971, but it was not until ten years later, when...
Reviewed in issue 1/1995
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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