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...
When I interviewed Rodrigo for The Gramophone a few years before his death in 1999, he told me that one...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2005
Here is one of the best Mozart issues I have heard for some while, with bright and attractive performances of...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1989
Unless you can peek at the note, there’s nothing on the cover of this recording to indicate that this is...
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
Though Borodina has been a favourite singer in the UK for more than five years and has an impressive list...
Reviewed in issue 6/1997
The Proms prospectus hailed David Matthews as “the 21st century’s outstanding heir to the great tradition of English symphonism”. The...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2007
The five-LP box-set from which these songs have been taken came in the wake of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's epic survey of...
Reviewed in issue 1/1995
The St Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) Quartet have drawn sustained and widespread praise for their fresh approach to Shostakovich’s quartets, their...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2004
The common factor that links four of the composers in this programme is that they all lived and worked for...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1992
Korngold himself identified three phases of his career: as the teenage prodigy whose precocious brilliance amazed musicians such as Strauss,...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1991
Despite its title and the images chosen to illustrate the accompanying booklet (a war-ravaged landscape by Paul Nash, photographs of...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1988
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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