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...
Here on a two-CD set is more buried treasure from APR. And it is with a rich sense of irony...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2010
Ravel, the time-traveller; from the childhood fairy-tale world of Ma mere l'oye to Le tombeau de Couperin's homage to the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/1992
The two recordings listed for comparison above date from 1966 and 1978, with Victoria de los Angeles and Teresa Berganza...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1999
A case of the promise of the earlier companion disc (Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4—CD80230, 10/90) being fulfilled and of...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/1991
This latest instalment in Nimbus's complete Haydn cycle has the same overriding drawback as earlier issues: the acoustic of the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1992
It was a revelation when I first heard the golden voice of Victoria de los Angeles, around the time when...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1996
Certain features of the Lutheran tradition are omitted - the sermon, for instance - but others, such as the telling...
Reviewed in issue 12/1999
When three soloists, each with his own high-powered schedule, get together occasionally in intensive studio sessions, can real chamber music...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1995
A mere glance through the titles above of the opera overtures and intermezzos on this record will tell the reader...
Reviewed in issue 8/1985
Piazzolla was born in 1921 and died in 1992. So, with no anniversaries in immediate view, why has there been...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2004
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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