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...
If you want a nice, polished, civilized performance of Mozart's late sonatas for piano and violin, don't buy this CD....
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1995
In the light of Cecilia Bartoli's recent high- profile efforts to promote Vivaldi the dramatist (Decca, 12/99), it is a...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2000
I'll get my only real bugbear out of the way first. Myung-Whun Chung's selection offers us Prokofiev's first two suites...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1994
This anthology presents monophonic and polyphonic pieces specifically connected with French monarchs of the direct Capetian line (987-1328), including coronation...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/1998
The sound ASV have provided for the Lindsay Quartet on CD is still not very ingratiating, but the somewhat metallic...
Reviewed in issue 3/1987
With over 60 songs to his name, Juan del Encina counts as the leading figure in Spanish music of the...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 2/1992
Good for Marco Polo! The name of Henri Rabaud (1873–1949) is not exactly unknown: he was a Prix de Rome...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1995
The catalogue has rarely lacked fine couplings of Brahms’s two late clarinet sonatas. But take note that this new one...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1997
The second volume of Naxos’s Glazunov series has most of the ingredients of the first (8/96) – same orchestra, same...
Reviewed in issue 10/1996
This is a pleasing enough traversal of arias for tenor by German composers from Gluck to Korngold. I entirely concur...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1992
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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