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...
Soon after his return from America, at the height of the war in 1943, Britten wrote incidental music for a...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1996
Firm enjoyment from start to finish. Marriner and the Academy recorded two of these pieces (namely the Concerto for Double...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/1996
Whether for reasons of economy or aesthetics, the chamber ensemble is the primary vehicle for contemporary classical music – witness...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/2003
In his affectionate memoir to accompany this CD, Ned Rorem recalls Barber, Thomson and Copland as composers, performers and teachers....
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 9/1999
Starting with “The Art of the Prima Donna” in 1960, Decca presented their star soprano in a series of double-album...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 11/1996
Lovely performances, most sensitively engineered, of three works inspired by the sublime artistry of Leon Goossens. Gordon Hunt, currently the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1997
Those who know Zinman and the Tonhalle’s set of Beethoven symphonies‚ also on Arte Nova (7/99)‚ will have a more...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
The problem for the pianist tackling organ music is the necessity on the piano to incorporate pedal parts into music...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/2009
The focus on Martinu’s works for cello and piano continues even though the 50th anniversary year of his death has...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2010
The Vienna Philharmonic had not played Deryck Cooke’s performing version of Mahler’s Tenth until Daniel Harding introduced it to the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2008
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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