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...
The West German Radio Chorus, a powerful presence in this performance, were also involved in one of two recordings of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2000
Had Walter Legge persuaded EMI to allow Herbert von Karajan to set down some Shostakovich symphonies in the early 1960s...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2009
With this reissue the number of available recordings of The Art of Fugue reaches ten, of which only two are...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/1990
Paul McCartney’s latest pseudo-classical project, conceived during the illness of his first wife to a commission from Oxford’s Magdalen College,...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2006
Pergolesi did not, as far as anyone knows, actually compose a ‘Marian Vespers’, but at the end of 1732 he...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/2002
Playing Bach’s violin and obbligato keyboard sonatas with piano instead of harpsichord is almost unheard of these days, so by...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2009
The Handel revival of recent years has given only modest attention to the cantatas; this must be one of the...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1999
Robert Shaw in his Telarc recordings has repeatedly demonstrated what a fine orchestra the Atlanta Symphony is, and here Yoel...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1997
It was the invasion of Szymanowski's native Poland that prompted Karl Amadeus Hartmann—no Nazi sympathizer—to write his Concerto funebre for...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 9/1990
The comparison between Kilpinen and Wolf, though repeatedly made, is one that will not travel the whole distance. Certainly their...
Reviewed in issue 11/1992
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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