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...
As one who endorses The Good CD Guide's recommendation of Maurizio Pollini's Beethoven Op. 110 of the mid-1970s, I was...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1994
Most collectors approaching this CD will be drawn by the works of Brahms and Strauss but the bonus, a sonata...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2011
Helene Grimaud is a young pianist of considerable warmth and artistry, and here gives us Brahms’s final piano compositions. Composed...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/1996
In virtuosity, precision, freshness of tone and extensiveness of vocal range, the record clearly excels. Many of the singer's accomplishments...
Reviewed in issue 11/1986
Poppea has a strange history of recordings, ranging from the luscious and enticing arrangement of Raymond Leppard (available on a...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 7/1996
Liszt is not a composer one instantly associates with Rubinstein (Harvey Sachs in his quite excellent biography devotes but a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2011
Though there are currently six recordings of Berlioz’s highly demanding dramatic symphony in the catalogue, ranging from Toscanini’s fairly eccentric...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1996
A century ago, very few music lovers had the opportunity of hearing Wagner in the opera house, and piano transcriptions...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/2000
There are at least half a dozen recordings of Vivaldi’s Stabat mater that I wouldn’t want to be without but...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2009
Alessandro Scarlatti was a skilful and influential composer of chamber cantatas; he was also prolific—some 800 cantatas by him have...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1991
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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