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...
Coupling Ullmann and Schoenberg makes sense. Even in the desperate conditions of the concentration camp Theresienstadt, where his Rilke setting...
Reviewed in issue 11/1995
This is the second of Thomas Quasthoff’s Bach collaborations with this period-informed, modern-instrument ensemble, following a highly personal and distinctive...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 13/2007
Interest here centres on the songs by Vaughan Williams and Theodore Chanler. The Four Last Songs were written between 1954...
Reviewed in issue 5/1992
Eloquent soloists and delightfully pointed contributions from all members of the ECO under Sir Alexander Gibson's direction bring us highly...
Reviewed in issue 7/1984
After Handley's particularly fine recordings of the Sea Symphony and the Fifth Symphony, I find this new recording of the...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 9/1991
A product of the St Petersburg State Conservatory and later pupil of Kim Kashkashian and Nobuko Imai, Tatjana Masurenko is...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2009
Hearing again Sir Andrew Davis’s magnificently unforced and deeply moving 1992 recording of Elgar’s Second has merely confirmed its exceptional...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2003
The Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey, invariably an inspired artist, here couples two of the greatest cello sonatas from the early...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2011
Robert Craft’s best rostrum work involves relatively small forces and transparent textures, such as the Octet, which is here given...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2009
If, like me, you have been badly missing Alfred Brendel in Haydn since his retirement, let us celebrate a special...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/2011
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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