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...
These recordings were made in the National Concert Hall in Budapest in June and November 2005. It is not a...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2009
Dvorák’s piano trios divide clearly into two groups. Nos 1 and 2, from 1875-76, belong to a stage when the...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2004
Robert Shaw and his Festival Singers, in splendid form, have taken the trouble to seek out a venue having a...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 10/1990
If you admire the music of Domenico Scarlatti, you’ll warm to Padre Antonio Soler’s. Although he devoted less energy to...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2002
This is in every way a remarkable CD. Not only are the performances fused with a poetic inspiration seldom encountered...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 1/1989
Life has never been easy for the Rossini tenor. Not least because of Rossini’s own writing for a series of...
Reviewed in issue 4/2002
Last year Ton Koopman and friends gave us an excellent first volume of Buxtehude’s chamber music (1/11) containing his unpublished...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/2011
In many ways Weinberg’s Piano Quintet is the natural coupling for Shostakovich’s masterpiece, which it post-dates by five years. Not...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/2011
Poor old Gliere has had his sensitive knuckles rapped for writing the same kind of music in Soviet Russia that...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
Schumann's Violin Concerto is still a vastly underrated work, but even so it is surprising that Telefunken's historically important first...
Reviewed in issue 9/1994
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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