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...
A well-chosen programme and an attractive proposition for anyone wanting to extend their collection with a representative group of Russian...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
Telemann's orchestral suites (or overtures, as they are more correctly termed) represent the apogee of a genre which the German-speaking...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2007
Most of the songs on this record are 'discards' from Britten cycles which have surfaced since his death and have...
Reviewed in issue 7/1987
The voices are fresh and the minds mature. Singers and pianist have a feeling for the style, its delicacy and...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/2008
Forming their trio in 1987, these three young French musicians chose Wanderer because of their affinity with German repertory alongside...
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
Louis Kaufman began recording in the 1920s (for Gennett and Edison) and until the 1950s was fairly frequently represented in...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1992
If you will only accept performances of Berg's Chamber Concerto that make the long repeat in the finale, the issue...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1991
Here are riches. 'Elgar's Choral Songs' is a wide term, embracing part-songs, unison songs and those for male voices. The...
Reviewed in issue 4/1988
Invited to give four concerts in Geneva last summer, Neeme Jarvi turned the occasion into a mini-Stravinsky festival in honour...
Reviewed in issue 2/1994
Famed above all as a delectable Mozart singer, Miah Persson has also made her mark as a thoughtful recitalist. As...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2011
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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