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 three new versions of Mozart's Jupiter are as strongly contrasted with each other as could be, and each is...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1989
Of Howells’s 20 settings of the canticles for Evensong, three have been outstandingly in demand, and of these the Collegium...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2003
Each of these three chamber works has the kind of quality that one expects from the mature Mozart, and although...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1992
A disappointment after Chailly's fine companion disc of the Spring and Fourth Symphonies (12/90). The ''capricious and obstinate'' struggles of...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1993
Here is a superb recital following Piers Lane’s earlier Hyperion release of d’Albert piano concertos (4/96) and, once again, provoking...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/1998
Hard on the heels of the performance of Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata by Lynn Harrell and Vladimir Ashkenazy on Decca comes...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1986
Over the past few decades Harry Christophers and The Sixteen have performed Messiah about 150 times. This new Coro recording...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2008
Heinz Holliger has bestridden the musical world as the leading oboe player of the day as surely as did, in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994
According to Discover International's booklet-notes, the Iranian conductor Alexander Rahbari has been chief of the Belgian Radio and Television Orchestra...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1994
Zdenek Mácal’s reading can come over as genial where darker emotions might seem de rigueur, but without any sense of...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 7/2009
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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