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...
This third of Owain Arwel Hughes’s recordings of the Rachmaninov symphonies for BIS rounds off the series with a sympathetic...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2003
This latest in Julia Cload's slowly evolving Haydn series gives us five works published between 1773 and 1780, a time...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/1993
First things first, and the very opening of the First Symphony’s first movement, subtitled “Daydreams on a Wintry Road”, is...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1996
As I noted in my review of his 1949 Salzburg Festival Bruckner Seventh with the Vienna Philharmonic (Music & Arts,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1996
What is it about Prokofiev that so riles the modernists? Even Stravinsky was prepared to allow that Prokofiev’s music had...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 8/2004
You don’t often hear recordings of Boulez’s music under someone else’s direction. Among the significant exceptions are two of the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2003
Following its two largely rewarding discs of chamber cantatas by Rameau's contemporary Clerambault (10/98 and 11/98), Naxos has come up...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/2000
Much has been made of the natural affinity between early music and contemporary popular styles, though (Sting’s recent recording of...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 2/2007
When it comes to getting the right notes, with good sound and complete control, at whatever speed, Angel Romero has...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1990
Discovering anything about Pavel Grigoryevich Chesnokov (1877-1944) is not easy: Soviet dictionaries, and a Soviet lexicographer writing in Grove, were...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1996
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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