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...
Together with Parry's English Lyrics and some pieces by Stanford, these are among the foundation stones of the modern English...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1986
Already in its LP for this Fireworks Music was one of the best performances available (certainly the best of the...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1983
I would have preferred ''The Popular Harpsichord'' to ''The Essential Harpsichord'' since, of course so much that is of essence...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1991
These radio recordings with Curzon date from two different periods. The two concertos, helped by the warm Royal Albert Hall...
Reviewed in issue 5/2000
As a glance at the comparisons listed above shows, we are well served at present for the Concerto for seven...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1994
Bach's music is at the same time the most often transcribed and, on balance, the most amenable to transcription. He...
Reviewed in issue 8/1986
This is the final recording in the Naxos series of Stanford symphonies, featuring an unusual coupling of the early (but...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2008
Viennese operetta lovers have seldom had it so good. While various companies reissue 1950s radio broadcasts of operettas that in...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/2010
Those who know the music of Bent Sorensen (b.1958) from Da Capo’s disc of his prize-winning Violin Concerto and the...
Reviewed in issue 10/1999
Emmanuel Pahud is a masterly flautist, a genuine star among EMI's contracted instrumentalists. He plays with exquisite insouciance at the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/2007
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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