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...
Ever since her outstanding Satie recital for Virgin (5/89) I have looked forward to hearing Anne Queffelec in the finest...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1993
Someone at Philips had an inspiration in inviting Riccardo Muti to conduct Aus Italien with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. This...
Reviewed in issue 9/1990
Any recording of Renaissance polyphony by the Choir of Westminster Cathedral made in its resplendent home acoustic tends to be...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 6/2010
The quality of sound is excellent and the balance here seems to me a model of what such things should...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 5/1986
Mary Garden in her own time was considered the most modern of singers. When comparing with her contemporaries and immediate...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 8/1994
If, like me, you have derived a great deal of pleasure from the six previous issues in Hyperion's enterprising series,...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 8/1994
Two generously filled surveys of elegant, quietly tuneful, unfailingly moderated miniatures by Carey Blyton (nephew of Enid, b.1932). The guitar...
Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 5/1999
Chadwick’s exuberantly Romantic orchestral works came out of obscurity with two CDs from Serebrier and the Czech State Philharmonic (Reference...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 10/2002
This refreshingly different disc enables collectors to continue the process of catching up with Kagel, now in his late sixties...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1999
Havlor Haug is a Norwegian now in his mid thirties and a most impressive talent. First of all, some biographical...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1988
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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