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...
Ruth Ziesak has made several appealing contributions to baroque and classical repertoire on disc over the past five years or...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1996
The three volumes of keyboard music added in 1950 as an afterthought to Edmund Fellowes’s edition of Byrd have only...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/1999
Of all the New Year concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic, seen on television over the years, the last conducted by...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1994
Rolf Enstrom is a Swede in his late thirties. The list of selected works given in the Caprice insert notes...
Reviewed in issue 5/1990
After a great, trilled ''Freude'', the tone dies away and, bar by bar, the words sag into place for Mozart's...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 1/1992
Neither the success of The Beggar's Opera nor the collapse of the Royal Academy in 1728 deflected Handel from the...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1989
As a feat of engineering, this disc is something of a showpiece. Decca’s sound is quite spectacular, whether in terms...
Reviewed in issue 3/1996
For Hyperion, the Choir of St Paul's Cathedral under John Scott have recorded an excellent series of anthems and another...
Reviewed in issue 6/1994
After the ubiquitous Third Symphony the Kleines Requiem fur eine Polka (“Little Requiem for a Polka”) is fast becoming one...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 9/1996
In a recital recorded in the congenial surroundings of the studio space at Crear in west Scotland, Ann Murray revels...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2006
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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