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...
Le Pavillon d'Armide has an honoured place in the history of ballet. It was choreographed by Fokine to a libretto...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1995
Sospiri's sighs are deep and inconsolable; the phrasing of the Elegy has a reach and flexibility and range of dynamic...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 2/1994
Last November the Vienna State Opera celebrated the 50th anniversary of the house’s re-opening after the damage of the war...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2006
The opening to this trio appears to take up the gauntlet thrown down by Beethoven’s mature piano trios – but...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 13/2006
I suppose with a building as huge and astonishingly ornate as Milan Cathedral it is only natural to expect an...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/1995
This is a bad year for bringing out new Mozart records: far too much competition around. But even supposing the...
Reviewed in issue 11/1991
Many collectors, I know, have been impatiently waiting for this anthology to appear on CD—the greatest recordings made in stereo...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1987
Irvine Arditti’s inexhaustible appetite for the contemporary and the complex, as both soloist and founder-leader of the Arditti Quartet, is...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1996
Just after welcoming the complete recording of the film score to The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (7/07), for which...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2007
After the arrestingly imaginative performance of the Quintet recently given by Martha Argerich and friends, this new one comes as...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1996
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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