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...
This CD is the last release in Priory's series devoted to Vierne's symphonies. The series has shown that it's not...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 3/2000
Born in 1940, Christoph Eschenbach established himself during the 1960s and made these recordings not long after: they show him...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1994
Cesar Cui is best known as the least known of the Russian moguchaya kuchka, the 'mighty handful' of Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov,...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1995
Did Dowland ever expect this collection to be played in its entirety, at one sitting? If so, in what order?...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 7/1994
Terms like ‘unexaggerated’ and ‘balanced’ have been admiringly applied to the three previous volumes of David Zinman’s Zurich Strauss cycle,...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/2003
Even longer in the making than Mariss Jansons’s EMI cycle, Vladimir Ashkenazy has finally completed his Decca series. Circumstances, venues...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 9/2007
These must be the least well known of Haydn’s later quartets, poorly represented over the years in recital programmes and...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2005
These works make the perfect César Franck pairing; the dark, sinister mood of the Quintet offering a vivid contrast to...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2006
It is a matter for welcome when an issue such as this one featuring two British violin concertos of our...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1989
L'Oiseau-Lyre Florilegium's title for this disc is ''Virtuoso Sonatas and Fandangos from eighteenth-century Spain'': if not quite all the items...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1990
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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