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...
Producer Philip Lane’s British light music collections on ASV have tended to divide opinion. Many purchasers have welcomed the opportunity...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 10/2003
This disc proposes a speculative selection of music that may have been performed at the coronation of Charles V in...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/1999
One of the major pleasures of the past few years for aficionados of British music has been the discovery that...
Reviewed in issue 7/1990
The firm, clear sound of the CD, most truthfully balanced, serves to emphasize the feeling that the performances lack Tchaikovskian...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1985
I am almost convinced that if you had telephoned Boris Blacher, whistled a couple of notes and asked him to...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1998
Brahms's Second is very much a symphonic concerto which can be dominated in performance either by the conductor or the...
Reviewed in issue 8/1990
This recording represents a tour de force on the part of all concerned, so much so that the entire text...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1988
Instead of claiming—in an effort to connect these two composers—that Ernesto Nazareth and Darius Milhaud were ''almost contemporaries'' (Milhaud was...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1993
In the booklet interview accompanying this release devoted to improvisations based on themes by JS Bach, pianist Gabriela Montero contrasts...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 9/2006
Rosa: The Death of a Composer, or ‘A Horse Drama’, gives us blood on the stable floor, dried, ominous and...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2001
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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