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...
Amazing to think that in 1965, with a violinist of Itzhak Perlman’s calibre on its books, RCA shelved what was...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2004
A pupil of Maria Ivogun and Erna Berger, Streich had the same pearly tone and faultless technique as her teachers...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1999
In the earliest days of stereo a small American label called Everest distinguished itself by making a series of recordings...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1995
It may surprise listeners to discover that John Merbecke (c1510-c1585) had once composed polyphonic works that could emulate the music...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1996
Viewed from a purely historic perspective, you won’t find a more significant set of quartets Bartok quartets. Viewed as interpretation,...
Reviewed in issue 10/1999
Occasional recordings of Mendelssohn's early symphonies for string orchestra began to appear in the early 1960s, but it was not...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 8/1993
The enthusiasm attending the first performances of Siegfried Wagner’s first opera, Der Barenhauter in 1899 was such that a career...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1996
Those who already have the DG version (recorded in 1972) by these artists on CD need not consider buying this...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1988
Though not disguising every single stitch and seam in the symphonic fabric, Solti's new reading of the Third Symphony has...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1983
Magnus Lindberg is best known on disc for expansive, richly expressive orchestral scores such as Aura, as well as the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2008
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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