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...
Five solo flutes is not a sound you hear every day, and when those flutes are mellow-toned baroque-style instruments, all...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/1997
Christus am Oelberge (‘Christ on the Mount of Olives’) is a curious piece, reflecting much that was characteristic of Beethoven...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2000
Robert Shaw won the Gramophone Award for the best choral recording of the year with his performance of Verdi's Requiem...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1988
Collectors already following these artists' on-going series of the Mozart piano concertos will no doubt take this new disc on...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1993
The music at St Mark’s‚ Venice in the early 17th century yields seemingly inexhaustible riches‚ upon which this attractive programme...
Reviewed in issue 10/2001
What was successful in Book 1 (11/00) is just as successful here. And to his previous line-up of four keyboards,...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2001
This CBS compilation would seem an attractive proposition: it includes what most music-lovers would regard as three out of four...
Reviewed in issue 1/1986
Schorr has always been one of the foremost singers in my own personal pantheon, and hearing this record through from...
Reviewed in issue 9/1991
The great bonus with the Beaux Arts is their inclusion of the A major posthumous Trio, discovered in 1924 in...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 1/1988
Here is treasure indeed to add to our precious storehouse of Popp recordings. Recorded in Munich in 1983, this recital...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/1997
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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