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...
I had not heard Kun Woo Paik play Fauré before‚ and could not help noticing before I began listening that...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
Kempff was already almost 63 when recording these works some 33 years before he died. With his essentially Germanic musical...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1997
More proof—and it seems it's still needed—that the best place to go hunting for neglected masterworks is amongst the works...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 6/1991
With both these new issues of Tchaikovsky's Fourth the fill-ups, valuable and unexpected, are a prime consideration, particularly in relation...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1991
While Johann Baptist Vanhal’s eminence among Viennese composers of the classical period has always ensured a steady trickle of recordings...
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
The generous and attractive coupling of the Beethoven and Mendelssohn concertos is surprisingly rare. Historic recordings by Menuhin, Szigeti, Milstein...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1998
On this showing the Hungarian National Philharmonic are certainly an enthusiastic, even boisterous lot; standards of ensemble and intonation are...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1993
The sleeve promises a ‘memorable audiovisual experience’ featuring ‘spectacular images which enhance the symbolic meaning attributed to each planet by...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2005
''Neue Wiener Schule'', proclaims the heading. Today, the ''new Viennese school'' ought to be the likes of H. K. Gruber...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1987
''... He played for an hour or so on the great, long piano with its strong sound, already quite battered,...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 4/1989
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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