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...
Both the comparative versions listed above are very good and can still be safely recommended especially to the real Reger...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1990
After a positive deluge during the tercentenary celebrations in 1995, Purcell releases have since been a rare commodity. This new...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 3/2000
Within two seconds of pressing the ‘play’ button it’s obvious that here is a disc of outstanding singing. Five distinct...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 13/1997
There are, I suppose, reasons for listening to Don Giovanni without the voices; though, short of cocktail party background music,...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1994
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2007
In the 12 years since the last of Jarvi's recordings of Tubin's symphonies for BIS appeared, no one has touched...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 6/2000
Following hard on the heels of his warmly praised discs of the complete solo piano music (7/96 and page 123...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1996
A more stimulating disc it would be hard to imagine. Right from the symphony's subtly textured outset (with trombones and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1999
Escher’s Arcana is the highlight here, a virtuoso suite reflecting the Ravel of Gaspard through the chastening lens of neo-classicism....
Reviewed in issue 10/1998
The recent book on Franco Corelli by Marina Boagno (published in English by Baskerville, USA; 1996) lists no less than...
Reviewed in issue 11/1997
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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