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 thing of beauty is a joy forever.'' Of no singer could that be more truly spoken than of Seefried....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993
One of the most striking features of the Franz Schubert Quartet's new issue of Mozart string quartets is their remarkable...
Reviewed in issue 6/1994
Compulsive disorders make a fascinating subject for an opera, as Edward Rushton’s The Shops seeks to demonstrate. This revolves around...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 9/2008
Recordings of Zemlinsky's operas have moved on from the powerful double bill of his maturity—Eine florentinische Tragodie and Der Zwerg—to...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1991
The two sonatas and the Concerto date from very different periods in Miaskovsky's long and prolific career, the First Sonata...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994
Reinhard Goebel has put together an imaginative sequence of pieces by Biber, Schmelzer and Walther—all, to a greater or lesser...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1991
According to the biographical note Minoru Nojima's career is centred on America and his native Japan rather than on Europe—which...
Reviewed in issue 10/1990
Welcoming NMC’s first Woolrich disc‚ of relatively smallscale vocal and chamber music (10/96)‚ I expressed the hope ‘that recordings of...
Reviewed in issue 9/2001
This new release of Bach's four orchestral suites, BWV1066/9, together with a fifth, completes a project with Musica Antiqua began...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1986
Strictly speaking two of the four works on this disc are not flute concertos at all: the Honegger, like the...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1991
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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