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...
The first of Karajan's three Berlin Brahms cycles (1963) was, by general consent, his finest for DG. As to which...
Reviewed in issue 7/1995
This is Chopin presented with a difference. For here Kevin Kenner follows a reeling path, moving effortlessly from Chopin through...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2011
Felicity Lott's most recent Wigmore Hall recital showed her to be ever more relaxed and ever more sharply focused as...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1989
In the 20 years from 1936 to 1956, Ludwig Weber was a commanding figure in the field of German opera....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1999
When these recordings were first issued, over a quarter of a century ago, Roger Fiske, Malcolm MacDonald and I all...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1995
The lirico-spinto repertoire of the tenor in Verdi is well represented here, the lirico part by arias from La traviata...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2000
Prokofiev and Shostakovich reacted to the anti-formalist purges of 1948 in opposite ways. For Shostakovich it was a question of...
Reviewed in issue 10/1988
Released in celebration of John McCabe’s 70th birthday, this splendid recital is a timely reminder of what we will soon...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2009
No talk here of historically informed performances. “We simply look at the notes Mozart wrote down, and start from there,”...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2011
Eileen Joyce was born to impoverished parents scratching not quite a living out of the Australian desert; the story used...
Reviewed in issue 11/1987
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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