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...
It is ironic that because RCA have sat on this recording for so long, it has been pipped to the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1995
Alessandro Stradella holds a colourful place among the plethora of mid-Baroque Italian composers who operated in the busy churches, courts...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 13/2006
Saul is one of the great tragic musical dramas in the English language. Its central theme is the destructive power...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 9/1998
I wonder how far the awkwardness of this often striking but flawed opera was due to the Metropolitan Opera coming...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1993
The Bohemian musician and composer Johann Went (or Jan Wendt) was a wind player in the Imperial Harmonie (wind band)...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1999
Nothing quite like this has happened before: a disc devoted entirely to Machaut’s songs, all performed with voices alone. Only...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 2/1999
Max Bruch's Third (and last) Symphony was first performed in 1883, when he was 45 (it was revised three years...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1988
On this her debut recording, the young Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang makes a considerable impact. It’s clear that the Sibelius...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2010
After the recent death of this great and courageous pianist every scrap of material wil be gathered as proof of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2003
This is a significant recording for several reasons. Sergio Vartolo has now recorded all of Frescobaldi’s keyboard music (the other...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2002
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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