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...
The works brought together on this new disc do not constitute Bohuslav Martin≤’s complete chamber music for flute – the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2011
The record is designed as a tribute to Herbert Sumsion, organist and choirmaster of Gloucester Cathedral for most of his...
Reviewed in issue 3/1990
Testament continue the good work in restoring the Hollywood Quartet recordings to currency and indeed bring one performance to the...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1996
Mussorgsky’s suite depicts particular paintings (11, to be precise, by his late friend Viktor Hartmann); Sposalizio was inspired by Raphael’s...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2011
It would be only truthful to say that I approached this recital with some trepidation. Would it be difficult to...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1991
This ‘spiritual journey’ could not be piloted by a more sympathetic guide than Olivier Latry, titulaire at Notre-Dame, Paris. He...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2005
During the first half of the 17th century the Spanish zarzuela, a play with a mixture of spoken and sung...
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
No one dispenses musical decadence as exquisitely as Riccardo Chailly. In The Miraculous Mandarin‚ at the point where the hapless...
Reviewed in issue 1/2002
It has taken the tercentenary year (and the anticipation of it) to repair the nelgect of these works on record—from...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1986
Henry Du Mont was an organist and composer who held a succession of important court appointments in France during the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 9/1993
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
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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