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...
One of the few conductors of his father's music to excite Maxim Shostakovich's admiration is Haitink. Perhaps it should come...
Reviewed in issue 6/1992
This—the complete recording of Corelli's 48 trio sonatas—is the eighth that I have reviewed in these pages. The most recent,...
Reviewed in issue 10/1991
Some artists announce their arrival on the world stage with a youthful fire and passion that settles into a more...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2009
There are very few singers that any of us, I imagine, would choose to listen to for 10 hours. Even...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 6/2004
One of the group of composers who were deported to the ghetto camp at Terezin, Hans Krasa is best known...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1998
It is not every day we hear a recital, recorded or live, from Mira Zakai, so it is a pity...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 5/1991
The more I hear Jurinac‚ the more I consider her the complete singer. Here she reveals once again all her...
Reviewed in issue 9/2002
Chandos offer a very good account of the Clarinet Trio. The Canadian clarinettist James Campbell has a pure, warm quality...
Reviewed in issue 9/1988
This is an attractive programme of the familiar and not-so-familiar that does not quite come off in performance. At the...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1990
No prima donna since Callas and Sutherland has excited such extreme reactions in audiences and critics as Cecilia Bartoli. This...
Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 7/2009
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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