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...
In his well-informed insert-note, Clemens Hosingler points out that this recording can lay claim to be the first-ever of Die...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1996
An unusually cheerful Russian programme this, with plenty of colour, plenty of tunes, the warm tones of voice, harp and...
Reviewed in issue 9/1991
This is young person’s Beethoven. I don’t mean that at all patronisingly – after all, this is relatively youthful, high-spirited...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 2/2001
It is difficult to think of a better programme to form a one-record representation of Strauss's orchestral music. If also...
Reviewed in issue 3/1986
As Jean Christensen makes clear in his chapter 'Lyricism with a Dramatic Nerve' in The Music of Per Norgard (Scolar...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/2000
Johann Theile's St Matthew Passion dates from 1673. In my original review I remarked both upon the high level of...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1986
The designation Nullte—or No. 0—for Bruckner's early D minor Symphony has perhaps brought it a certain ridicule; but it is...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1990
Ever since her debut recital five years ago, which AB hailed as ‘one of the most exciting ... from any...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2001
Once again the Hyperion Schubert Edition has literally surpassed itself. Elly Ameling, whose Schubert singing on disc over the years...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1990
The fact that this new record plays for 57'43'' as against the Talich/Bogunia's 39'28'' on Calliope is not just because...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell 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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