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...
This seems to be an age of completions. If a composer was unfortunate enough to die without finishing a piece...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2009
Borodin’s songs have become better known in the West of late, and this recital should draw further attention to some...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1996
We have had to wait a long time for the first recording of Simpson's Fifth Symphony—22 years last May, to...
Reviewed in issue 2/1995
Many commercial composers have felt obliged to become stylistic chameleons but not Bernard Herrmann. While he may have been unhappy...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2011
Bayo starts with an aria that is always a sure winner, Cleopatra's triumphal celebration in Giulio Cesare of her brother's...
Reviewed in issue 6/2000
Writing of the ''reaffirmation of vitality'' which ends his Sixth String Quartet, David Matthews pin-points the essentially positive quality that...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1995
Only dedicated film buffs know the 1939 Bob Hope comedy Some like it Hot (no connection with the Billy Wilder...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 8/1994
The Dutch composer Theo Loevendie, now 61, 'crossed over' from jazz to serious music relatively late in life, and the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1991
With repertoire so interesting and unfamiliar as this, it is disappointing that the information on the sleeve-note is so thin....
Reviewed in issue 6/1987
Now in her early thirties, Alwynne Pritchard has been a presence on the British new music scene for more than...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 4/2003
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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