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...
A general air of vitality and clear-headed musicianship has characterized this series so far, and the latest disc is no...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1996
Bax's songs tend to turn up in recitals in ones or twos at most, so it's interesting to hear a...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1993
St Peter was the rock; but those echoes are something else! They magnify and multiply, set a halo upon each...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2000
It is scarcely credible that it must be a full quarter of a century since I first revelled in the...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 1/1986
Who knows, perhaps a tighter performance might have helped, but Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek’s cheeky Second Symphony (the Ironic) of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2006
This is Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and a recording which marks the centenary of the town's Bach Choir, the oldest of its...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 2/2000
''The Early Years—Pierre Monteux'' it says on the box. The early years are, of course, those of Philips, not Monteux....
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1994
After faltering early attempts‚ European recognition of Kurt Weill’s ‘Broadway opera’ Street Scene really began with the joint Scottish Opera/ENO...
Reviewed in issue 6/2002
An ingenious piece of programming, and what might have been a valuable addition to the catalogue. As far as I...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1990
On this showing, the Mandelring Quartet are a gifted, wonderfully homogeneous young group who radiate an easy virtuosity and relaxed...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1998
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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