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...
France and Italy are not the only Latin countries to have drawn the Russian imagination: at least since Glinka there...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1998
Neither Kay Johannsen nor Martin Lucker are particularly familiar names outside their native Germany, but both have something distinctive to...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/1999
As we approach the 350th anniversary of Charpentier's birth, record companies, with Erato in the vanguard, seem poised to make...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1992
This, as I wrote in my review of the LP, is a marvellous recording of a very great musician, still...
Reviewed in issue 12/1983
This is a hauntingly unusual record, one to attract not only admirers of Burgon's very approachable music and lovers of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1988
David Petersen’s Speelstukken (literally, “pieces to play”) are a curious set of 12 virtuoso violin sonatas published in Amsterdam in...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1998
Here we have a magnificent recording of one of the truly Great European Organs. In Gerard Brooks, Priory have found...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/1998
Interest in the lighter side of Shostakovich is growing and there is a strong case for opting for a comprehensive...
Reviewed in issue 10/1997
With its excellent transfers of vintage EMI recordings, almost every one of these doubles is worth its asking price of...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2000
While the 1962 Ades recording by Messiaen and his wife remains in the catalogue it will obviously have a strong...
Reviewed in issue 11/1992
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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