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...
A DVD with less than an hour’s music and no additional features might seem a missed opportunity, for which even...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 13/2009
Priory Records have been successful in their organ recordings made in various locations by the obviously skilful engineer Paul Crichton,...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1988
Philip Martin is an Irish composer in his forties, a pupil of Franz Reizenstein and Sir Lennox Berkeley. His music...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1995
Albinoni's Op. 7 was published in 1715. Its 12 concertos are broken down into three distinct types: four for strings...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1993
The Aragonese composer Melchor Robledo is sufficiently obscure to need a few words of introduction. With dates of c. 1511-86,...
Reviewed in issue 3/1987
Bob Chilcott’s choral music has long been favoured by choral groups who relish his often light-hearted, always accessible and immensely...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2007
It's good news that Decca are reissuing Boult's earlier recordings of Vaughan Williams's symphonies for in the main they are...
Reviewed in issue 1/1990
It would be a stony heart which could resist such splendour. This famous vast organ, possessing riches beyond the dreams...
Reviewed in issue 11/1984
When the publicity machine is so highly organised‚ it is all the harder to take a dispassionate view of a...
Reviewed in issue 11/2001
Levine conducts a lively performance, Battle makes a sympathetic Adina, Dara is a thoroughly professional purveyor of the elixir; but...
Reviewed in issue 2/1991
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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