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...
The two sets of dances are charming products of Schubert's mid-teenage years and provide Gidon Kremer with much food for...
Reviewed in issue 8/1993
This is another colourful, barnstorming film score from Glass, and one that contains enough material of substance that it can...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2002
Here are two strongly contrasted readings of the First Symphony. Jiri Belohlavek, now in his mid-forties, is a well-established figure...
Reviewed in issue 8/1991
The exuberantly baroque city of Dresden provides the peg on which to hang some well-contrasted string sonatas by composers associated...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1999
Both players were born in 1960, Devos in Brussels where Hardy (originally from Baltimore) now lives. How long they have...
Reviewed in issue 6/1992
It was only really with Mélisande for Pierre Boulez and Countess Almaviva for Otto Klemperer that Elisabeth Söderström became a...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/2004
However arresting the film for which this recording forms the soundtrack may be (see page 20), the set has to...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1987
With this recording Haiou Zhang, a young pianist trained in both China and Germany, celebrates Liszt year in masterly and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2011
Having swept the board with their Award-winning Messiah, John Butt and the Dunedin Consort and Players proceed headlong into the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/2008
There are several good LP recordings of the Giuliani Concerto, the earliest of its kind to be written, but this...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1987
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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