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...
In certain respects this record is a superb achievement, bringing together as it does some good music and the expert...
Reviewed in issue 5/1985
Despite going, at the age of 30, to study with Dukas and d’Indy, Albeniz was ill at ease in writing...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1998
The character of the Bamberg Symphony is far better suited to Dvorak than Janacek. The ten Legends—charming everyday sketches of...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 8/1989
This latest CD of Mahler's First Symphony by Mehta and the New York Philharmonic is a performance that doesn't present...
Reviewed in issue 8/1985
At first glance, the coupling of the solitary sonatas of Elgar and Richard Strauss with Ravel’s single movement in A...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 1/2009
Bernd Glemser is presented to us in the booklet’s approximate English as the winner of ‘17 competitions and special prizes...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2006
At first glance, the present coupling seems a somewhat bizarre notion, yet there are some interesting parallels between the two...
Reviewed in issue 12/1996
This Naxos disc is an extraordinary bargain. In the April issue I praised a Philips recording of these same three...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1992
Set down between 1967 and 1972, Previn’s Vaughan Williams series with the LSO not only played a crucial part in...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2004
Containing, as it does, more of Respighi's best music for solo voice than is presently available on any other single...
Reviewed in issue 9/1992
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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