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...
Amid the flurry of certain other centenary celebrations one could name, you may—unless you are an avid medievalist—have overlooked the...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/1991
To mark the occasion of Victoria de los Angeles’s 75th birthday Testament have reissued these, two of her earliest complete...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1998
You probably missed the limited UK screening of the film Le Roi Danse. I only just made the last showing...
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
Naxos’s ability to come up with winning ideas at knock-down prices never ceases to amaze. Already the label has a...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/2008
Though one of the first records of Sir Colin Davis which revealed his full stature was his early HMV account...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1986
After three high-profile versions of Korngold’s once-neglected concerto in a matter of months, here, after a slight lull, is another....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 1/2011
This is an issue of considerable interest to the Handelian, although the interest is more historical than musical. Rodelinda was...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 12/2002
What muppet designs Naïve’s cover art? We got used to the striking array of painted ladies that adorned the label’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2009
This is a collection of fun music performed unashamedly by members of Consortium Classicum with the sort of exuberance that...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2006
Without telling tales out of school I should say that I recently received a note from Andrea Kauten’s executive producer...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2009
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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