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...
Der Traumgorge (''Gorge the Dreamer'') should have marked an auspicious stage in the development of Zemlinsky's reputation. It was his...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1989
Barenboim's Images are very individual, pliant and imaginatively drawn. The opening of ''Gigues'' is probably slower than the modere that...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/1990
Not so much a recording of the music itself, but of an occasion. Berlin's Waldbuhne, an enormous open-air amphitheatre, was...
Reviewed in issue 9/1991
The stranger to the domestic catalogues is Jan Carlstedt, a Swedish composer now in his sixties who originally studied in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1988
Discovered at the British Library by Nicole van Bruggen and Anneke Veenhoff is this forgotten, anonymous arrangement, from 1809, for...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2010
This set dates back more than 30 years to 1969‚ a period when Suitner was recording a number of operas...
Reviewed in issue 13/2001
Although L'incoronazione di Dario is the seventh opera by Vivaldi to have been commercially recorded, our picture of his operatic...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 12/1986
The young American violinist, Robert McDuffie has a bold, bright style. His partnership with the SCO and Swensen results in...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/1999
The Gloria is an absolutely splendid piece: its initial impact is sustained with electrifying effect throughout the ''Gloria'' proper (not...
Reviewed in issue 6/1987
I found these the most exciting interpretations of Verdi heard in a very long time. Of course, I agree with...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1987
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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