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 passing years have not slowed O’Dette’s fingers, still those of ‘the fastest lute in the west’, quick on the...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 12/1996
These are admirably disciplined, unidiosyncratic accounts of two of the most demanding sonatas (for listeners as well as players) in...
Reviewed in issue 3/1992
Thank goodness the absurd prejudice that has long deprived us of adequate recordings of Bach's four Lutheran Masses (or short...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2000
The impression created by the first track on Michelucci's recording, the opening of the Concerto, BWV1042 is, I fear, not...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1991
This anthology represents five composers who have taught at Harvard University covering most of the last century. The veteran is...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2003
Reflecting on the ultra-refinement of Scriabin’s late works, Stravinsky once asked, ‘Scriabin, where does he come from and who are...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
With Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto now familiar in its restored original form for basset clarinet, performances on the standard clarinet tend...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2006
Both string quartets date from 1923, a period of great personal happiness for Boughton. Not only had he recently married...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/1997
First performed in 1860, Zacharias Topelius’s play The Princess of Cyprus, with Frederik Pacius’s incidental music, was part of a...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 2/2005
Rediscovery of the Baroque Spanish zarzuela has gained impetus in recent years. The name of José Melchor de Nebra Blasco...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/2004
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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