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...
Apart from Tebaldi and Price‚ who shared some repertory‚ these singers represent very different strands and types of soprano singing...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2001
There are many things I can forgive a CD label, but claiming that video games are “culturally significant” and assuming...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 5/2009
Handel's six Concerto grossi, Op. 3 are among the most colourfully varied ever to have been collected under a single...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 6/1994
If you haven’t yet responded to my enthusiasm for Arabella Steinbacher’s Pentatone recording of Bartók’s Second Concerto with the Suisse...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2011
I first encountered the music of Rhian Samuel, professor of music at London’s City University, when her piano quartet Light...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2007
The third and final volume of Pascal Roge’s Poulenc cycle provides a glorious mix of styles and attitudes. You may...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1999
Subtitled ‘The Works for Organ’, Bowyer and Nimbus have extended this remit slightly to include some other keyboard works which...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/1999
As I remarked when reviewing Claudio Abbado’s cycle (DG, 12/95), I would not myself opt for any one conductor’s Mahler...
Reviewed in issue 3/1997
Marston's second two-disc tribute to Ernst Levy (born in Switzerland in 1895 though American-based for most of his life) focuses...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2000
The phenomenal success of Maxim Vengerov, still in his early twenties, has rested till now largely on the Russian romantic...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1999
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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