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...
This enthralling performance has always been a highly recommended version. Its stereo incarnation was available only briefly on LP: when...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2006
Like The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk a quarter of a century earlier, Shostakovich’s one and only musical was a hit....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2007
Kuhlau must be known to music-lovers, if at all for his elementary sonatinas on which many a young pianist has...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/1988
The release of this CD‚ timed to coincide with this year’s celebrations of the Queen’s golden jubilee‚ seems now equally...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
Musgrave's Madrigals were written when she was still in Paris studying with Nadia Boulanger and they were first performed by...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 9/1990
This is very much a family affair. The music is written by two Benda brothers of the mid18th century. It...
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
Electronic music was initially born of idealism and a spirit of adventure. It's easy to forget those pioneering days when...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2006
As JD commented of the LP, the performances here are restrained, though not without atmosphere. The recording too is very...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1984
The Feldman feast continues with two more volumes in the admirably planned Mode series. The fourth is called ‘Indeterminate Music’....
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 1/2002
From these two recordings of Respighi's Roman trilogy there is a clear first choice. Yan Pascal Tortelier secures consistently polished...
Reviewed by Ivan March 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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