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 is not the Berlin Radio Choir’s first outing in Henze’s Ninth Symphony; they gave the world premiere in 1997...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2009
To choose between these two performances is almost impossible. While not retracting a word from my praise for the Solti/Decca...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1987
Recent issues show pianists searching for the instrument best suited to Schubert’s characteristic musical language and subtly coloured harmonic vocabulary....
Reviewed in issue 3/1996
The lives of Franz Waxman, Miklos Rozsa and Bernard Herrmann are interwoven, not only because of their work on the...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/1993
This is a timely reminder of the high standards applying in so many respects in the late 1960s. The LSO...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993
Greeting the appearance on record of this very fine voice, John Steane was so bowled over by its qualities, if...
Reviewed in issue 9/1985
The basic drawback to this collection is the recording itself, made in a very resonant acoustic with the trumpet realistically...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1986
Emma Kirkby's voice has no longer the ingenue air, the charmingly demure quality through which a hint of passion enticingly...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1993
Abraham Cowley's The Mistress was first published in London in 1647 and was the most successful collection of love poems...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 1/1995
These recordings, made by Latvian Radio between 1986 and 1991, reveal a seductively sweet-voiced lyric soprano who is a real...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1996
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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