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...
With such sizeable recorded projects as Albéniz’s Iberia, Messiaen’s Vingt Regards and Ravel’s complete piano music under his belt, Roger...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2007
Like the Op. 9 Quartets, those of Op. 17 (1771) have had a raw deal from both players and commentators,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/1999
After The Ring – an Orchestral Adventure, Tristan und Isolde – an Orchestral Passion and Parsifal – an Orchestral Quest,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2011
Often described as esoteric and whimsical, ascetic and mystical, Satie’s music is easily stereotyped. As apt as those adjectives may...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 1/1998
On paper, this programme may look like something of a hodgepodge, but these four disparate works actually fit together extremely...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 9/2003
Both previous instalments in the Tempera Quartet’s enterprising Sibelius survey for BIS (3/06 and 11/06) have duly whetted my appetite...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2007
Winning performances by the Massachusetts choir and various instrumentalists, especially the fine organist. The Welsh composer is represented at his...
Reviewed in issue 7/1999
These recordings of music by Vienna-born Julius Burger (1897-1995), made in Berlin in 1994, were produced by Michael Haas of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2007
Hansjorg Schellenberger's playing will be well known to fans of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra which he serves as principal oboe....
Reviewed in issue 8/1988
There are, almost needless to say, already a fair number of versions of Vivaldi's Four Seasons on CD. I have...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1984
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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