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...
Tempting as it is to seek out performances of an artist’s central repertory in live rather than studio performances, the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2000
I can't remember who it was who said that Saint-Saens was the greatest composer who ever lived who wasn't a...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1992
Even more Bach-influenced than the later and more successful Elijah, Paulus benefits from this slimmed-down, period-instrument performance using a small...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1995
Whatever other merits this new all-star Fledermaus may have, it certainly provides good value for money, the first side of...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1987
Pesek’s Dvorak cycle is the first new complete set to have appeared for some years; indeed the recording of the...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
Two and a quarter hours of Tansman's piano music; I soon found myself recalling a phrase from my review of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1994
It is always a pleasure when you come upon an artist who surprises you with appreciable accomplishments you hadn't expected...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1990
Alan Blyth’s Opera on Video (Kyle Cathie: 1995) has no Dido and Aeneas, so here, we would hope, is at...
Reviewed in issue 2/1997
Discantus have produced their own twelfth-century ‘Paradise Garden’, inspired by Hildegard and Herrad. It illuminates the work of these two...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 13/1998
French pianist Marie-Josephe Jude, now in her thirties, studied with Aldo Ciccolini and briefly with Gyorgy Cziffra, and in this...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 3/2001
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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