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...
Why is Vaughan Williams’s Second Quartet not part of the international chamber repertory? Played as eloquently as this it seems...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/2001
Telemann's knowledge of woodwind instruments was considerable. He played most if not all of them himself and he understood their...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1991
Here is a very effective and enjoyable clarinet recital of pieces that were never originally intended for the clarinet –...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2003
It was Samuel Dushkin, the violinist for whom Stravinsky wrote his Concerto and Duo Concertant, who commissioned these two works....
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2002
Klaus Tennstedt was already seriously ill when these two performances were recorded, and already becoming something of the legend the...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/2007
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 5/1993
Brahms’s two string quintets fall somewhere between his earlier quartets and sextets in that their contrapuntal workings are better oiled...
Reviewed in issue 5/1996
John Marsh (1752-1828) was a characteristically 18th-century English phenomenon: a self-styled “gentleman composer” and “amateur of fortune” who originally studied...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2008
“The controversial Pletnev” boasts the latest marketing material from Virgin; but no more controversial, surely, than Mozart himself when writing...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 6/1996
And so Pierre Boulez’s DG survey of Bartók’s major orchestral works draws to a close. This final instalment opens with...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 13/2008
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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