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...
Though Beethoven never wrote an original string quintet, he did make this arrangement of his Piano Trio, Op 1 No...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2010
Simon Rattle's performance of the first movement of this symphony of the slowest I have ever heard, and by a...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1986
How you respond to these interpretations will depend on how you respond to the playing style of the Mosaïques Quartet....
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2007
Manuel Rosenthal was born in 1904 in Paris and grew up in the French capital that Satie knew in the...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991
This performance was first included in a box of seven records forming part of DG's 150th anniversary celebration of Brahms's...
Reviewed in issue 5/1987
Tuur (b 1959) is, I find, a variable composer, although it may just be that my response to his music...
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
These are rather unconventional readings of the Mozart concertos with flute in which the text is treated more freely than...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/2003
My pleasure in renewing acquaintance with the two important Cincinnati recordings on CD has been spoilt just a little by...
Reviewed in issue 12/1993
It is a moot point as to whether Chopin ever intended any of his songs should survive his death. In...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2011
Still a firm favourite 65 years on, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) was Warner Brothers’ most lavish enterprise up...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2003
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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