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...
Recorded between 1990 and 2004, these performances are reissued in brilliantly refurbished and clarified sound, forming part of a 100-CD...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2006
Perhaps we should not be surprised that so many pianists choose to record Chopin, thus inviting the toughest critical scrutiny...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 12/2002
How encouraging to see the Vasks discography growing at such a healthy rate. All three issues under consideration are premium-quality...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2009
Ironically, it was on the day Sir Malcolm Arnold died that this full-length ballet, drawn from a dazzling range of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/2007
For those to whom the name of this pianist is unfamiliar – and the producers of this handsomely packaged release...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2006
Grechaninov was a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, who championed his B minor Symphony; but it was over this performance that Rimsky-Korsakov...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1993
Despite the familiarity of Lully's name and his reputation, much of his finest music is still largely unknown to us....
Reviewed in issue 6/1988
The works on this latest disc in the Hanover Band's evolving cycle (now approaching the halfway mark) show Haydn's symphonic...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 7/1993
This is certainly amongst the most absorbingly interesting releases to have come my way: ''Music Of The Bach Family Before...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1987
We know from his earlier CBS cycle with the New York Philharmonic made in the 1960s (nla) that Leonard Bernstein...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1990
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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