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 two performances could hardly be more different. The Karajan, now on EMI's historic label, dating from 1954, was made...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1988
Ton Koopman’s Bach organ music series goes from strength to strength. As we have come to expect, his approach transcends...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/1999
The two LPs from which the CDs here derive were made a year apart, in the summers of 1973 and...
Reviewed in issue 9/1991
The collaboration of Anne-Sophie Mutter, always a keenly disciplined player from her girlhood onwards, and the inspirational Rostropovich produces some...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1997
Anyone who has followed Hyperion’s English Orpheus series will relish more comforting evidence that England’s shores in the eighteenth century...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/1996
This sounds like a good night out at Carnegie Hall in 1996, and not one whose memory is spoilt when...
Reviewed in issue 10/1998
The first thing Burwell is to be congratulated on is the complete absence of horror music. Musically representing director James...
Reviewed by ptonks in issue: 5/1999
As an erstwhile pupil of Cortot, it was perhaps not surprising that Lipatti always kept a special place in his...
Reviewed in issue 7/1989
Glazunov’s symphonies are not easy to bring off in the studio. But Tadaaki Otaka has the full measure of No...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2002
This lively and stylistically aware recital should provide listeners with pleasure. The Norwegian harpsichordist, Ketil Haugsand, partnered the viola da...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1988
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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