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...
An odd coupling, you might at first think, likely to deter those more strongly drawn to the one composer, or...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1987
In recent years we've had quite a glut of 'neglected masterpieces'. A work by a previously unfamiliar or even unheard...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1987
If John Huston’s 1956 big-screen version of Herman Melville’s masterpiece has always tended to divide opinion, there has never been...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1998
Jill Gomez's imaginative and wide-ranging survey of songs in Spanish, or by German, French and English composers on Spanish themes,...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 9/1994
With a taste for tenors and no previous experience of this particular one, you might be likely on hearing the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2002
There are two other versions of the Piano Quintet available, by Clifford Curzon with the Vienna Philharmonic Quartet (Decca) and...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1985
This is a most attractive set and presents a serious challenge to the two versions listed above. Like the excellent...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1994
Haydn's three 'programe' symphonies of 1761 are the most colourful and fetching of all his early works. They were probably...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1990
Christopher Page's new record with Gothic Voices repeats a formula that has worked so well in the past: a theme...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/1987
As more and more recordings are released from Austrian Radio archives of performances in the period just after the State...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2000
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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