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...
Hummel only wrote three string quartets, and here they are, played by the Delme Quartet with a nice appreciation of...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1992
This is a fascinating compilation of Scarlatti sonatas which Wanda Landowska recorded in 1934, 1939 and 1940. And it is...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1994
These rehearsal sequences give a vivid idea of Sir Georg Solti’s approach in his mid-fifties as he was emerging as...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2004
I am writing this a few days after Rysanek made her emotional farewell to the opera house (as Klytemnestra in...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1996
Here, at last, is Hildegard sung by Benedictine moniales! They’re from St Hildegard’s Abbey, Eibingen, a modern abbey, founded around...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 5/1998
The old black Columbia albums were not a pretty sight, and those for 10-inch 78s had a particularly dispiriting look...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2006
This record comes with an immaculate pedigree—an orchestra that has won itself the highest possible reputation for the performance of...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1989
Music critics become so accustomed to the emergence of new young pianists heralded as remarkable that a certain cynicism is...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1994
It was the English organist and composer Percy Whitlock who, in 1937, declared the Harrison and Harrison instrument in St...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 8/2010
For 15 years now‚ Piers Hellawell has been building a steady reputation as a musical nonconformist. The present disc features...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
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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