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 way to Brahms's triumphal C major is a strenuous one for Giulini. Naturally there are moments in which to...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1992
This is in some ways an oddly old-fashioned approach to the 1610 Vespers. With a substantial choir and sometimes highly...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/1998
In 1733 the new elector of Saxony, Friedrich August II, appointed Hasse his new Kapellmeister but allowed the famous opera...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 9/2011
Peter Seivewright’s recital, the first in a complete survey of Nielsen’s piano music, is very well recorded and comes with...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 13/1997
Mozart became a freemason in 1784, and from that date onwards wrote a number of pieces that either were intended...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/1993
This was my first encounter with Albanian violinist Rudens Turku (who, according to the booklet, will be making his Carnegie...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2011
Geoffrey Toye (1889-1942) spent much of his working life in the theatre as a composer, conductor and administrator. A waltz...
Reviewed in issue 3/1994
I enjoyed Boris Belkin's account of the Brahms Concerto a great deal more than TH who made a direct comparison...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1985
My first encounter with Bach's poignant and deeply felt funeral music for Christiane Eberhardine, Queen of Poland and Eleetoral Prineess...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1988
These are lively versions of the popular Handel suites. Lively in two senses: in tempo, and in its pointing, which...
Reviewed in issue 4/1985
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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