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...
All of us who fell under the spell of John Ogdon’s turbulent genius will warm to this recital of Chopin...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1997
Here is another very good version of the Dvorak Sextet. The ASMF Chamber Ensemble find more variety of mood in...
Reviewed in issue 5/1990
The double mono format is ideal for a 'library' reissue of this kind, and substantial chunks of the Furtwangler reissue...
Reviewed in issue 11/1989
The Mosaiques' previous Haydn disc (also on Astree, 2/90) contains what for my money are the most penetrating readings of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/1993
To keep abreast of Olympia's invaluable series of Russian recordings is to experience delight and disappointment in roughly equal measure....
Reviewed in issue 12/1988
Perhaps it is unfair to wonder as to the point of this programme, but I can’t help asking myself what...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1996
Korngold’s three quartets straddle his Hollywood film career. The earlier two come from the 1920s and ’30s, the third from...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 11/2010
Collections of brass music often succeed as much through planning as content. So credit to the Stockholm Chamber Brass for...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 4/2010
With this latest disc in their Haydn series the Lindsay Quartet complete what for my money is now the most...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/1996
Ingmar Bergman worked with many of the most significant mid-century Swedish composers – Hilding Rosenberg, Dag Wiren and Karl-Birger Blomdahl...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/1998
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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