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...
Edward Gregson, for 12 years Principal of the Royal Northern College of Music (1996-2008), is here represented by a sequence...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2011
This is the best of the CD transfers of historic Ansermet recordings so far and anyone who wants to hear...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1985
The album title is that of the final song, Sor’s Las mujeres y cuerdas, with its caveat that both women...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 2/1996
There are legions of recordings of this repertoire to choose from and you may not get the best performance of...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/1991
Inghelbrecht was in many ways a reliable conductor. That is, he could be relied upon to be demanding, bad-tempered, intransigent,...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 11/2002
This is a fascinating release—it brings an Ives masterpiece, Psalm 90, into the British catalogue for the first time; also...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/1991
Here is an attractive programme of late-baroque trio sonatas. The two Locatelli works are unpublished as is the G major...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1990
Franck was a very late developer who arguably only found his real voice when he was approaching 60 and had...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1991
A new recording was badly needed, and I'm afraid it still is. This is one of the masterpieces of classical...
Reviewed in issue 7/1984
I doubt whether anyone would dispute Haarlem's claim to possess one of the very finest organs in the world. It...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/1992
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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