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...
Expectations aroused by this group’s recording of the first five of Handel’s ever-pleasurable Op. 6 Concertos (9/97) are, happily, fulfilled...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1998
This can only be described as a well-intentioned disc, but its painting-by-numbers approach rather causes the music to get in...
Reviewed by rthomas in issue: 8/1998
Each new Bartok recital seems to bring us one or two pieces not previously listed in the Gramophone Compact Disc...
Reviewed in issue 6/1990
This two-disc package (including short, PC-compatible promotional films) offers a splendid showcase for two outstanding young Czech artists. Jirí Bárta...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2005
Here are some lively performances of four very attractive samples of Telemann's orchestral craft. One of them, the Suite in...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1994
This is the second disc from Musica Fabula devoted to Giovanni Felice Sances (d.1679), one of many Italian composers who...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 13/1998
These are impressive performances. Slatkin's overall interpretation of the elusive, often misunderstood A Pastoral Symphony is compellingly atmospheric, finely structured...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 11/1993
Finlandia have already reissued all Kajanus's London recordings on a three-disc set (2/92). Their edition contains transfers made by Anthony...
Reviewed in issue 2/1994
The first decades of the 1700s were early days for the cello sonata; indeed, if Vivaldi had not been so...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2007
In this new recording of Bach's four Orchestral Suites, Jordi Savall's chamber ensemble Le Concert des Nations joins forces with...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1991
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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