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...
Giles Swayne (b.1946) shares with his British near-contemporaries, Colin Matthews and Diana Burrell, an ability to write music of very...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1998
If I wanted to recommend a version of these two cycles to a young, impecunious person just coming to Lieder,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1994
Kanon pokajanen is music of transition, best heard at break of day or at eventide. The prompting ‘canon or repentance’...
Reviewed in issue 6/1998
This record is my 'turkey' of the year. The Salt Lake Tabernacle organ is an impressive instrument and with four...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1991
So much trouble did the instrumentation of Les noces cause Stravinsky that he himself claimed not to know how many...
Reviewed in issue 1/1989
This is rather like Herreweghe’s recording of the Beethoven Missa solemnis, which was welcomed by EG (12/95) and enjoyed a...
Reviewed in issue 11/1996
This is the second CD in what I trust will be a series of four, with all 12 of the...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1994
In his book Sopranos, Mezzos, Tenors, Basses and Other Friends (Crown: 1995), Schuyler Chapin, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 3/2004
This is a welcome issue on two counts. First, the performances are in the hands of a director who well...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1988
This is an agreeably undemanding work for the listener, but far from undemanding for the violinist when such very fast...
Reviewed in issue 6/1985
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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