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 Rouen-born Marcel Dupre would have been proud of this fastidiously prepared disc. His Prelude and Fugue in C (Op....
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 6/1999
Jean-Philippe Collard's record of the 13 Barcarolles dates from 1970 and was for some time available as an import on...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1987
I suspect Keith John and Jean Guillou (on Dorian/Conifer) are using the same edition of the score, but differences in...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/1990
I certainly rank clarity as being a prerequisite for good piano playing, but with Mischa Dichter it appears to have...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 11/1987
Philip Hope-Wallace once suggested in these columns that the newest, Giulini-conducted, Don Giovanni was worth a year at a foreign...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1988
Lucky French television viewers in the 1960s, who were treated to concerts such as those featured on this DVD. Régine...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 3/2003
Welcoming the return of the Tokyo's Haydn Op. 50 Quartets on DG (see page 1818) I noted a freshness which...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1990
ETA Hoffmann was not just the author of fantastic tales and the central character of Offenbach’s opera but also –...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 2/2011
Though Schubert wrote the songs published as Schwanengesang in the tenor range, recordings by tenors remain surprisingly rare. You immediately...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2007
As he did with many of his re-recorded works for the Hanssler Bach Edition, Helmuth Rilling has made new friends,...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2001
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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