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...
‘Favourite’ is itself a favourite among terms used by the compilers of programmes such as this, but it rather begs...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2002
A truly international disc. Medieval English songs sung most movingly by a favourite English group in an English church (St...
Reviewed in issue 3/1987
Terje Rypdal (b1947), who helped define the ECM jazz sound, composed Lux Aeterna in response to a request from the...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 4/2003
Sir Charles Mackerras himself provides potent rivalry in the form of a Classics for Pleasure double-pack where all three late...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2010
A minor amusement can be found here in comparing the four different-language notes. Of the youthful Granados Trio (dated by...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1997
The Brendels, father and son, give us Beethoven’s complete works for piano and cello, and you will have to search...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/2005
I was initially puzzled by the title to this collection of music composed for the liturgy of the Dead‚ although...
Reviewed in issue 4/2002
Solomon is an astonishing masterpiece: each of its three acts portrays a vital aspect of the virtue, wisdom and glory...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2006
Who would have thought that a disc devoted to Ravel's music for violin and piano was possible? Well, it is,...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1992
I enjoyed the F major Nocturne most of all on this budget-price CD. Ogdon plays the opening and closing sections...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1987
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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