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...
It’s rare for conductors to provide sleeve-notes, rarer still for them to use the opportunity to commend their interpretation to...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 5/2008
Here's a thoughtful and satisfying piece of programme planning of a kind that is currently rather unfashionable. Better still, the...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1987
This is really a record for specialist collectors of two kinds. Lovers of Dvorak's music will not want to miss...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1985
When this came out, in 1956, both of our great double-barrels were turned upon it, Philip Hope-Wallace allowing it house-room...
Reviewed in issue 10/1994
One of the many rewarding aspects of Bartok’s quartets is their responsiveness to differing interpretative options. Sifting and sampling through...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 8/2000
For more than a decade British composer Julian Anderson (b1967) has been consolidating his reputation as a leading talent. This...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/2006
The singing of the Flemish Radio Choir is pure and precise, Peter Thomas’s organ accompaniment to the Missa brevis is...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/2006
Carl Herring graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with first-class honours in 2003, and is a recipient of both...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 9/2008
I was impressed by my first encounter with Gloria Coates’s highly individual music (CPO, 3/97) and I remain so, though...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1999
You have to be a brave soprano to challenge the hegemony of the singers listed above in Strauss’s Four Last...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1999
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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