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...
It was as a Mozart player of uncommon finesse and sensibility that Mitsuko Uchida first made her mark. And it...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/1999
A year or so ago I chanced upon a CD on the French Assai label featuring Josef Rheinberger’s two-piano version...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2003
The rule now seems that all the finest versions of the Beethoven Violin Concerto are being recorded live, not least...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1993
This is the third recording of Khovanshchina to have appeared in recent years, and all three of them use in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1992
With two organs available, at opposite ends of a long nave, a total of 214 ranks (including, we are told,...
Reviewed in issue 10/1984
Pieter Wispelwey is an acutely sensitive, impressionable cellist, spontaneously responsive enough to every passing innuendo in Schumann’s concerto to make...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1998
Tchaikovsky's half-hearted comments, which get much more dismissive, were occasioned by the enervating task of editing Bortnyansky's complete works for...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2000
The Fifth and Sixth make almost as stimulating a pair as the Fourth and Fifth, developing as they do several...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 8/2010
Like a long road that changes its name once or twice and offers varying scenery along the way, this programme...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2000
The first impression, here, as the orchestra begins the D major Concerto, is of plenty of spring in the step,...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1991
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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