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...
At just 11 years of age, Sarah Chang is, quite simply, an undisputed violinistic phenomenon. She appeared with Zubin Mehta...
Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 1/1993
EMl hit an inspired note when it invited Andsnes and Bostridge to complement the fomer’s series of Schubert’s greatest sonatas...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2003
Here is a bit of a surprise. And a delight. A disc from Berlin Classics of essentially Parisian songs, with...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 8/2005
''A leading exponent of a new romanticism said to be permeating the performing arts in the late 1980s'' is how...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1990
Bach’s concertos mostly survive in manuscripts which the composer rearranged for keyboard, both for himself and in multi-form, to play...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2003
An air of deja souvent ecoute hangs over this programme, only one item of which has less than three other...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1994
More of Haydn's godchildren: this time the Ysaye Quartet send two more of their Mozart ''Haydn'' Quartets out into the...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1995
What this recital reports, basically, is an East-European musical tradition, from the folk-inspired forays in Mahler’s Wunderhorn settings (where Yiddish...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2008
Cyprien Katsaris took the initiative when, in 2001, he set up his own label, having tired of the restrictions of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 2/2009
If the calendar has anything to do with it, 1984 would of course have been the year to pay a...
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
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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