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...
One Bruckner motet is moving, one after another is immobilizing. ''All the air a solemn stillness holds'', and it's not...
Reviewed by jswain in issue: 3/1983
Marc Teicholz is the third guitarist to take part in Naxos’s integral recording of Sor’s works, and his user-friendly contribution...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1997
A neat trio of works, neatly executed, although the Prokofiev Classical strikes me as too relentlessly earnest and rather lacking...
Reviewed in issue 2/1994
There is no shortage of good couplings of Respighi’s three sets of Roman pictures, but this is among the very...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1997
With its tragic denouement, its two short acts and its duration of just over an hour, Falla’s La Vida breve...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 5/2004
The sound in both symphonies is a considerable improvement on the original LPs, and has less glare and greater richness...
Reviewed in issue 1/1998
This is the first release from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s in-house label. It’s easy to understand why Mahler’s Third Symphony...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 9/2007
Another hearing of this recital confirms any opinions expressed in October: the more reflective songs receive the more idiomatic performances...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1985
Modern recordings aspire to perfection. A good producer will be alert to the smallest imperfections of tuning‚ ensemble and balance‚...
Reviewed in issue 11/2001
This is a fascinating collection of Lieder, all written by these American composers before the age of 30. Very few...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/1992
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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