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...
Florilegium’s recent explorations into Baroque Bolivia have yielded captivating discoveries but the ensemble still has plenty more to say about...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2009
In one respect Brautigam continues to cut an impressive figure. His technique is faultless; but his approach to content is...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2000
This latest coupling in Sir Neville Marriner's Mozart series for EMI strikes me as his finest yet. Along with the...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1988
Doom-laden and forbidding, this new Dido revels from the outset in every kind of symbolic reference to the inexorably declining...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/1999
As their ferocious title declares, Liszt’s Etudes d’execution transcendante are outsize creations taking technical demands close to the limit (and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2000
Goldstone and Clemmow are as lively and engaging as in previous volumes. They make an especially strong case for the...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/1999
Margaret Price’s belated Wigmore Hall debut yields a feast of sumptuous singing from the most majestic soprano this island has...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/2006
Unimpeachably honest, Hess’s Carnaval may be less volatile or idiosyncratic than, say, Rachmaninov’s but its special sensitivity and deep affection...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
The idea of a selection of music that might have been heard in early eighteenth-century Naples is not a new...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1994
If it were not for Johann Sebastian and his gifted sons, would we, and should we, have more than a...
Reviewed by prussell in issue: 1/1995
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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