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 has already become one of my most cherished records. Though it may never quite attain the legendary status of...
Reviewed in issue 10/1984
It's for the second of these generously filled, separately purchasable discs, devoted to Chopin's infrequently heard, youthful (in fact mostly...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1993
It is well known that Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann changed his third name to Amadeus in homage to his beloved...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1988
Truth can indeed be stranger than fiction. Ervin Nyiregyhazi, a prodigy of prodigies, was born in 1903 and, aided and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1993
The music of Alessandro Stradella makes infrequent appearances on disc, and performances have tended to be uneven. All the more...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1999
Russell Sherman’s programme (the start of a complete Debussy cycle?) reminds you in a salutary if unintentional way that although...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2008
JBS was critical of some aspects of this record when he discussed the LP version in October 1979. He recalled...
Reviewed in issue 8/1983
Thomas Tomkins’s collection of Songs of 3, 4, 5 & 6 Parts, published in 1622, is one of the last...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2003
DVD is the best opera medium so far; but only purpose-made recordings can fully exploit it. Among the first is...
Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 1/2000
Marking the centenary earlier this year of Georg Kulenkampff’s birth, this is a most welcome disc, bringing together two of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/1998
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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