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...
It seems a curious idea to offer a CD centring on selections from Gotterdammerung where Brunnhilde is consigned to the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1988
This digital remastering of Willcocks's 1973 Messiah successfully recaptures the unique King's College acoustic and all that goes with it....
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1993
This collection is highly enjoyable and something of a bravura feat. Meir Rimon (who sadly died shortly after completing this...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1992
There’s little doubt that Ligeti’s Violin Concerto has become one of the select repertoire items of the last decade. Christina...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 10/2000
Those who admired Nyman’s first three string quartets (Argo, 8/91), will find much to enjoy in this, his Fourth. In...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1998
Poulenc regarded Gustave Charpentier’s opera Louise as a success, as opposed to the ‘lamentable failure’ of Dukas’s Ariane et Barbe-Bleue....
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 5/2003
Here is a release both rare and curious. Frantisek Xaver Brixi was baptized in Prague in 1732 and died there...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1997
Here the Orlando Consort show all their famous qualities: absolute clarity of texture and musical detail, even in the intricate...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 3/2001
The Triumph of Time and Truth was Handel's last oratorio. But its composition goes back half a century, to his...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1983
This is among the most compelling performances of this oft-recorded work that I have heard on disc or in the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1993
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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