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 is another splendid addition to EMI’s Anglo-American Chamber Music series, again with superb string players from the LSO, and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1996
It's good to have this fascinating Poe-inspired trilogy restored to widespread currency and inquisitive readers can safely be directed to...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/1993
These performances were recorded during the fiftieth anniversary of the Montreux-Vevey Music Festival in 1995 which, by virtue of Hindemith’s...
Reviewed in issue 3/1997
As an evocation of a historical individual, this recital devised by Emily Van Evera succeeds marvellously. It marries a pleasing...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2005
Expect to be surprised by the imaginative touches in this recording of three Mozart serenades. The CD begins with the...
Reviewed in issue 11/1984
If you wanted to show how broad Martinu's artistic scope was, you couldn't pick a better coupling than the Double...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 6/1991
This anthology of chamber music by Telemann includes five works from one of his most interesting publications, the Essercizii musici...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1991
I grew up with the highlights record of this set and so its every inflexion is engraved in my memory...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1987
In his speech (in English) near the end of the concert, Domingo tells us that though this was not his...
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
Scriabin was an ambitious composer. A romantic alchemist, he saw his music as a transmuting agent. Through its influence pain...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1996
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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