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...
There are a good many issues of British music these days and very welcome they are, though inevitably there is...
Reviewed in issue 1/1985
Schumann mourned Norbert Burgmuller’s early death in vivid terms, grieving that, “Fate, instead of decimating the mediocrities, who are encamped...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1998
Berio’s Rendering (1989) is a 35-minute orchestral work in which the composer enters into an extended dialogue with the sketches...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1997
The record to choose is the Nigel Kennedy, if only because it has the one major work of Elgar on...
Reviewed in issue 8/1985
Zemlinsky's Die Seejungfrau (''The mermaid'') is a three-movement symphonic fantasy based on the Hans Andersen story. It was first performed...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1987
Gentlest, most delicate and restrained of English song-writers, Ivor Gurney surely finds his ideal interpreters here. It is difficult to...
Reviewed in issue 12/1989
This is an unusual and important issue of material deriving from a strange source: in 1940 the New York Post...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1993
‘Amour cruel’ provides a delightful glimpse of private musicmaking in mid17thcentury Paris. Half of this CD is devoted to six...
Reviewed in issue 9/2001
‘Perhaps the dramatic complexity of the 19th century as it draws to a close, with all its roots, veins and...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2006
The Classics for Pleasure two-LP compilation of Eric Coates pieces must represent one of the light-music bargains of this and...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/1986
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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