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...
This is an elegant, well-recorded and well-played performance, with some interesting points that Dohnanyi has to make in what is...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1991
One of Inva Mula’s early appearances on disc was as the maid Lisette in the Pappano recording of Puccini’s La...
Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 12/2010
Health permitting‚ Neeme Järvi may yet produce his promised Miaskovsky intégrale‚ but the Olympia label has preempted that project by...
Reviewed in issue 4/2002
Mozart began composing the work known as Zaide in 1779-80, but left it unfinished, ostensibly because no performance was in...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1998
Sacred sweetmeats, liturgical lollipops, whatever the appropriate term might be, the majority of pieces here are readily likeable, short and...
Reviewed in issue 3/1994
Gidon Kremer is a most musicianly violinist with unobtrusively reliable technique and a lovely tone quality which doubtless owes much...
Reviewed in issue 12/1984
You would have to go a long way to find music as communicative and as uplifting as Michael Torke’s. What’s...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 12/2000
Now celebrating a notable birthday, Perlemuter was just 18 when in 1922 Faure completed his very last work for solo...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1989
Having been assistant organist at Ely Cathedral since 1989 Jeremy Filsell is in a unique position to know what this...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/1992
The six quartets that Mozart dedicated to Haydn are among his finest, which is saying something, and after he had...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992
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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