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...
Completed in 1962 but composed largely between 1957 and 1960, The Mine is Rautavaara’s own story of miners striking against...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/2011
The time when the Prokofiev quartets were rarities on record seems to have passed, though the Second always maintained a...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1992
The first impression is that this is recorded in a matchbox, or at least the tiniest of studios. We seem...
Reviewed in issue 5/1989
GÈry de Ghersem (1573-1630) was one of several composers whose outputs were largely destroyed in a series of catastrophes in...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2011
Pletnev’s return to Liszt is distinguished by a seasoned and nuanced re-reading of the great B minor Sonata. His earlier...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 1/1999
There is novelty value in this seriously conceived set of Bach’s four Orchestral Suites: Paul Dombrecht draws on the theory...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 9/2011
Not many visitors are going to escape through my front door without hearing this. Mind you, I could understand if...
Reviewed in issue 9/1994
Over 20 years ago, Sir Charles Mackerras’s performance of Kat’a Kabanova led the way for his Janacek opera cycle, one...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1998
If, like the famous acquaintance of The Revd Sydney Smith, you consider heaven to be eating foie gras to the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1984
As the producer, Lawrence F. Holdridge, points out in his excellent notes, this is a three-tenors record with a difference....
Reviewed in issue 8/1998
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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