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...
''Sonatas For Strings, Volume 1''—Vivaldi detractors, beware! By my calculations this project could run to seven issues. The present release,...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1990
Jose Marin was a guitarist and singer who, despite spending years dodging a term in the galleys for multiple murder,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/1998
It’s always quite moving to take in at one sitting a work that has taken its composer years to write....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2005
With Vol. 3 Daniel Smith and his supporting cast reach halfway house on their journey through the mysterious territory of...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1989
These additions to Nimbus’s Prima Voce series are both new issues deriving from Victor originals, the artists being household names...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2006
Grieg completed his youthful Symphony in a hurry in 1863/64, but declaring that “it belongs to a bygone Schumann-period in...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2007
The three minute opener to this disc has Ann Murray's clear, strong mezzo-soprano voice set against a well-distanced piano accompaniment...
Reviewed in issue 12/1986
There are major problems with all three current sets of Tchaikovsky's most melodramatic opera. If melodrama were all, the mid-1970s...
Reviewed in issue 10/1993
Puccini’s second opera, first performed at La Scala in 1889, was deemed a failure. The composer returned to it on...
Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 12/2009
The 150th anniversary of Hummel's death provides a timely spur to rescue these third and fourth of his half-dozen or...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1987
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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