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...
For perpetuation on Cd the Beaux Arts Trio and Philips have significantly chosen not their much admired, scintillating original performances...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1986
The salon is in sentimental mood tonight. Fond farewells, evening stars, blighted flowers and fallen women occupy the divine hour,...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2007
It is not often that an artist records a large-scale masterpiece four separate times, but Karajan is something of an...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1986
The Clerks’ Group began with Ockeghem in the mid-1990s and went on to record the whole of his sacred output,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 5/2007
In theory Korngold fans should have much to celebrate here as this issue brings with it the first complete recording...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/1995
The Ton Koopman Bach cantata factory seems to be turning out its product at a prodigious rate. Here, already, is...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1996
Michel Plasson has revived the fortunes of the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, and under his leadership it has become one of...
Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 2/1992
The Brandis Quartet recorded a number of Beethoven quartets in the mid-1980s including the E minor Rasumovsky, Op. 59 No....
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1994
This is the third Italienisches Liederbuch to appear in recent months. At mid-price it is, paradoxically at once a bargain...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1995
The Boston Symphony have never sounded so richly sonorous or as imaginatively vital than they did during Koussevitzky's reign. Nowadays...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1994
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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