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...
We may not readily associate Mirella Freni with Maria and the regimental rataplan but she came to Venice for the...
Reviewed in issue 1/1999
A palpable winner, with some excellent solo playing from Antonio Meneses and alert contributions from the Munich Chamber Orchestra. What...
Reviewed in issue 3/1999
With Durufle's centenary still two years away the recent spate of recordings of his Requiem seems somewhat premature. All the...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/2000
Talich's 1935 set of Slavonic Dances (recorded for HMV) is richly enjoyable in Music and Arts' excellent new transfer (6/92),...
Reviewed in issue 6/1994
Il Sibilo was a weekly newspaper‚ published in Naples in the early 1840s. For one year the publishers had the...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex was written for the twentieth anniversary of the Diaghilev company, but his only recorded comment on the...
Reviewed in issue 5/1994
MacDowell is coming into his own after suffering a long run of condescension at the hands of the Americanist lobby....
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
This group of contemporary vocal works was specially commissioned by The Clerks over the last 10 years and written to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 1/2011
Schutz’s Weinachtshistorie is a magnificent Christmas counterpart to the Passion, and one can perhaps understand that during his lifetime the...
Reviewed in issue 4/1997
The work that established the infant art of dramatic film scoring, Max Steiner’s King Kong (1933) was the prototype and...
Reviewed by Marwalker in issue: 5/1998
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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