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...
Saint-Saëns is so well known nowadays for his symphonies, concertos and orchestral works that it is easy to overlook his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2009
This set was first issued at about the same time as the now-legendary Callas/Karajan version (EMI), and suffered in comparison—as,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1989
Here's another recommendable version of Die schone Mullerin to add to those already in the catalogue. For many years it...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1993
For Schumann there were ‘no half measures in Bach; everything was written for all time’. Composed in 1845, his Op...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2006
Having hugely enjoyed the stimulating first instalment in Sakari Oramo’s new Sibelius symphony cycle with the CBSO for Erato (Nos...
Reviewed in issue 13/2001
All the currently available recordings of Mefistofele have at least one major flaw. Oliviero de Fabritiis's sensitive account occupies three...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1994
Having set down Shchedrin’s Parabola concertante with the Southbank Sinfonia (9/08), Raphael Wallfisch here teams up with the veteran composer-pianist...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2009
Randi Stene’s engaging recital serves as a showcase for Nordic song as much as for her own attractive and flexible...
Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 10/1998
Among the many reforms and amelioration of standards Stainer brought to cathedral music was a recommendation of bigger choirs to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 2/2010
Had I not encountered the blistering recent disc from the Elias Quartet, the Canadian-based Alcan Quartet’s account of Mendelssohn’s final...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2007
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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