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...
Three of the composers here – the Venezuelan Modesta Bor (b 1926), the Belgian-born Peruvian resident Andres Sas (1900-67) and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2000
Count John McCormack, who died in September 1945, gave his farewell recital at the Royal Albert Hall, London in 1938,...
Reviewed in issue 2/1996
Edith Wiens's fresh tone and well-nigh faultless technique makes everything here sound so easy that one might be lulled into...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1993
The title may make you cringe, but this is very classy violin playing. Lovely tone, beautiful legato phrasing and, given...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/1999
I first heard Angela Lear at the 1975 Chopin Competition in Warsaw and since that nerve-racking time she has developed...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1996
Langlais's First Symphony is an angry work, born out of the frustrations and horrors of the Nazi occupation of Paris....
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/1995
Juliane Banse and András Schiff have been giving recitals together for several years, but this is their first recording. To...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 6/2003
There are 56 tracks on this 64-minute disc. Take out The Mistletoe Bough (3’22”) and the average is just about...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2005
Bax’s engaging Clarinet Sonata of 1934 has been lucky on disc, with distinguished versions from Janet Hilton, Emma Johnson and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2006
This was one of the great recordings of the 1960s, and it still sounds magnificent. Richter rightly sees the piano...
Reviewed in issue 1/1985
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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