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...
Returning to DVD after listening to a number of CDs, one is always surprised by the sheer quality of the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2011
Johann Kuhnau was Bach’s predecessor at Leipzig and one of the most imaginative of the Lutheran organist-composers of the generation...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1996
There have been a lot of Mozart Requiems on record lately, on modern instruments and on period ones, in Sussmayr's...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1988
The impressively international character of Barenboim’s career causes us to forget that he was born in Buenos Aires and spent...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1996
Charles Tournemire is one those composers whose names are better known than their music. He wrote four operas, eight symphonies...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 1/1992
This is Giulini's third recording of the Pastoral Symphony and it is, by some distance, the finest. Indeed, the whole...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1994
These three pieces make a very attractive programme and it was a good idea to present them together in this...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1990
Having started promisingly with a stimulating coupling of Symphonies Nos 2 and 4 (7/01), succeeding releases within Sakari Oramo’s CBSO...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2003
Carlo Curley is a very flamboyant character and the mighty Philadelphia organ sonically displayed here seems just right for his...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1991
It is really very modern. There are the good types, the righteous, us and more especially me; and then there...
Reviewed in issue 2/1997
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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