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...
Yet another Mozart sonata cycle! Katin, we're told, has had the project in mind for some time. These are the...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1989
This recording was made a couple of years ago in Studio One of Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, the home base of...
Reviewed in issue 12/1986
This cellist, Parisian and in his mid-twenties, is a strong and sensitive performer and his programme is well chosen and...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1996
John Foulds’s work divides sharply into two distinct halves. Mostly he is remembered for his light music but latterly his...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2011
Weber's Bassoon Concerto is often paired on records with Mozart's, to which, declares the bassoonist and scholar William Waterhouse in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1991
The first of Dvorak's nine symphonies and the last of his symphonic poems come here in a generous coupling, both...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1989
The title Banchetto Musicale, taken from Schein's publication of 1617, is a reminder that a great deal of early seventeenth-century...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 8/1986
Not for Geoffrey Govier and Catherine Mackintosh is the slow movement of K376 “a dreamy reverie in the form of...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2010
On sonic grounds this all but 20-year-old recording, even in its CD transfer, has to yield to the more recent...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1988
Concerto, soloist and record label are all shown in a rather unflattering light by this strange enterprise. So many elements...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2005
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...
If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.