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...
We are so used to hearing the handful of really familiar Smetana works – The Bartered Bride, the string quartet...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 8/2007
This live recording from the 1956 Salzburg Festival captures Schwarzkopf’s art at its peak. It has always seemed an irony...
Reviewed in issue 12/1996
Although the Elgar is probably the selling-point of this issue, the Walton String Quartet stands in greater need of the...
Reviewed in issue 1/1987
Romain Descharmes is a 29-year-old French pianist admirably attuned to the more subtle and elusive sides of Ravel’s genius. A...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2009
Near the beginning of his EMI career Simon Rattle recorded his first The Planets. It is excellent, but next to...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2006
Bach's first biographer, Forkel, noted that the violin writing of the Sonatas, BWV1014-19 required a master to play it. Bach,...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1989
There was an old schoolboy conundrum: when is a concerto not a concerto? The answer, then concerned itself with Bach....
Reviewed in issue 3/1990
Setting up as a viable and much cheaper alternative to the Hyperion Schubert Edition, Naxos proposes, like its coeval, to...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2000
It is a tribute to the quality of Sir Colin Davis's pioneering set of Berlioz's epic opera that it has...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1994
It may be at the risk of opening the flood-gates of the correspondence pages to say so, but to my...
Reviewed in issue 8/1990
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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