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...
In life, Leonard Bernstein ran into plenty of criticism for programming his own concert music. Now he’s gone it seems...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2004
I started out here expecting to watch paint dry but ended up transfixed by a wealth of musical colours. All...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
Barbirolli was something of a dark horse where Bruckner was concerned; five of the nine symphonies were in his repertoire...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2005
The title of this CD is well chosen. The Dictionnaire Larousse defines the phrase faire la fete as giving oneself...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1989
Any full-price disc running to a miserly 49 minutes has to offer a pretty special musical experience. And while Previn's...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1993
My own preference among Karajan's three Berlin Philharmonic recordings of Don Quixore is for the EMI version with Rostropovich, which...
Reviewed in issue 4/1990
The 12th and final volume of Frieder Bernius’s grandly conceived and worthily executed Mendelssohn Edition was the Elijah reviewed last...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2008
There is something to be said for a sharply analytical version of the Symphonie fantastique, when this is not just...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1997
This contains two of Vivaldi’s three known settings of the psalm Dixit Dominus, including one recently rediscovered in Dresden that...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 2/2009
How wise it was of the programme planners to kick off proceedings with the Piano Trio No 1 of 1950...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2001
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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