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...
course there is great scope for virtuosity too‚ and under Leppard’s firm but generous direction both Gillian Weir and the...
Reviewed in issue 12/2001
When the members of a Parisian concert society commissioned a set of symphonies from Haydn in the mid-1780s they would...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 8/2005
It is no compliment to the production to say that it should be seen in conjunction with the bonus film...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2003
You may well imagine that Manuel Blasco de Nebra, organist of Seville Cathedral at the time of his death in...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2004
Aptly, the Mussorgsky cycle in Shostakovich's orchestration precedes the symphony. Shostakovich himself made it clear that this darkly memorable cycle...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1994
In the late 1990s when Domingo was giving interviews to Helena Matheopoulos in preparation for their book, My Operatic Roles...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2003
This verges on the unbelievable. Leon Fleisher, now 75, who for more than 35 years couldn’t use his right hand...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2004
The bold claim that this trio of unknown works by two neglected Polish composers active around 1940 are masterpieces comes...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2010
Year after year they came back, the Covent Garden public, to see and hear Leider do very much the same...
Reviewed in issue 5/1991
In the interview that serves as the booklet-note, Rodion Shchedrin explains, albeit obliquely, the origins of his near-hour-long choral suite...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2009
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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