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 programme is very much the mixture as so often before, so much so that the few items that are...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/1988
Those of us who are something less than 100 per cent Mahlerians occasionally feel that the composer was at his...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1987
Boris Tchaikovsky’s music has been quite widely recorded in Russia (on Melodiya) but comparatively little has reached the West. Here...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2007
This is not one of Bel Canto’s happier issues. In the first place 26 minutes is a ridiculously short length...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1998
This is King's College Choir at its most typical: assured, technically precise, with a marvellously professional attention to detail, but...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1990
It is seldom that one finds a programme as varied as this, with three composers represented by 22 pieces. A...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1991
Having just praised the work of the same team using the same equipment in the same place only a few...
Reviewed in issue 11/1985
This is the third and final instalment in Hugh Wolff's survey of the six ''Paris'' Symphonies with the Saint Paul...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1993
If not, perhaps, the world-beater we have all been waiting for this new Sgouros/Weller account of the Tchaikovsky B flat...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1987
If there are still plenty of good tunes to be written in C major there are still also a lot...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/2003
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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