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...
Brahms's clarinet sonatas have never lacked for recordings, and each of the versions listed above has its own enjoyable qualities....
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1990
A couple of first recordings here are useful in filling gaps in the discography of the compulsively productive Milhaud (who...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1996
It is apt that the LPO’s principal guest conductor, Vladimir Jurowski, should have a place in the first issue of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2005
Each of these concertos has a sort of programme, rather an enigmatic one in both cases, but in each it...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1994
Many readers will be familiar with “Angelo casto e bel” from Il duca d’Alba, recorded by Caruso in 1915, and...
Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 4/2009
How marvellous it is after all these years to be able to welcome a truly first-rate modern recording of Bax’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/1996
This is a wonderfully vivid and urgent performance of Poulenc's Organ Concerto by a soloist who was particularly associated with...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1987
What justification for bringing Babbitt, Diamond and Persichetti on to a single CD? You may have guessed—they were born within...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/1991
Neither of these versions of Bach's Mass in B minor will make much, if any appeal to readers who appreciate...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1991
Josef Myslivecek is slimly represented in The Classical Catalogue, and this is, I think, the first of his operas to...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1992
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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