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...
No inkling of Sebestyen's reasons for choosing to present Bach on the piano, with over two decades of harpsichord recordings...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1994
Erna Berger died only in 1990, full of years, and still gratefully remembered by a few veteran operagoers who heard...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1991
I first came to know Haflidi Hallgrímsson and his music in the early 1990s, and have since been consistently impressed...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 8/2004
It is a sad anomaly that although so much undistinguished music is available on CD there is no complete recording...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2005
Parkin is still the best all-round Mayerl pianist and his tenth CD is a special landmark in his remarkably dedicated...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/1998
Chandos have wisely followed the success of their recent record of the Sixth Symphony (ABRD1122, 5/85; CD CHAN8359, 7/85) with...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1985
In the nineteenth century, the New York Philharmonic was by origin and inclination very much a German orchestra, though, according...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1992
This double CD album explores interesting territory. Leonardo Leo was a late-baroque composer of the so-called Neapolitan school, and contemporary...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1989
It’s a scandal that David Diamond’s music continues to be so neglected in the country of his birth. Let’s hope...
Reviewed by Lawrence Johnson in issue: 9/2004
It is a curious twist of fate that the classical music record industry has recently lavished more attention on Alessandro...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2004
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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