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 just the sort of work for which a DVD issue is invaluable. One could travel the world and...
Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 9/2009
There are those pianists who restrict themselves to the compositions of a small number of composers and make very good...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2009
I found it difficult to credit that John Bevan Baker’s Songs of Courtship, completed in 1988 and receiving their first...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 11/2006
Here is England’s first great opera presented with a truly cohesive sense of theatrical purpose, one which unusually allows the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2009
Lollipops for piano—there is hardly a tune in these 15 that you won't know, even if one or two make...
Reviewed in issue 12/1986
No one could write for a brass quintet more wittily than Sir Malcolm Arnold and his tail-chasing opening theme, with...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/1997
It would be a pleasure to recommend this, for the programme and performances are fine. Unfortunately, I find the recorded...
Reviewed in issue 9/1992
‘Norrington’s interpretations are characterised by their freshness, clarity and liveliness,’ boasts the cover of this DVD. And so it proves....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2006
This is, I feel, the most outstanding release to date from the Britten Quartet, and can only help to consolidate...
Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 2/1992
The new-found popularity of Shostakovich’s greatest concerto has engendered a flood of state-of-the-art recordings but few if any are finer...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2011
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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