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...
The partnership between James Galway and Monica Huggett, playing at modern pitch, may raise the odd eyebrow, but it is...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1997
Works for clarinet, viola and piano are thin on the ground, examples by Mozart and Schumann being the best-known examples....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2006
This is an unusual programme, with the three works featuring the oboe or cor anglais being complemented by the second...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 6/1996
This second instalment of Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s series of the late Haydn Masses is, if anything, even more exciting...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2003
If there is one thing certain about a comparative review of Les contes d'Hoffmann, it must be that it will...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1989
The majestic opening to the short suite from All About Eve heralds this grand cinematic expression of high theatre. The...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2007
I welcomed Alan Feinberg's ''American Piano Music'' also on Argo (2/91) and now find much to enjoy in another American...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 5/1993
I can't believe that Haitink intended the Third Symphony's first movement to have turned out as it has. The problem...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1995
Interpretation is born in the mind and if the requisite technique is present it emerges through the fingers, as it...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1996
The Misteri d’Elx is a mystery play performed every year by the people of Elche, a Catalan town famous for...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 13/2004
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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