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...
Eighty last year, Luis de Pablo has amassed a substantial output which has won plaudits throughout Western Europe, though not...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2011
Why is a recording made in 1991, by a group that disbanded in 1993 after only eight years together, appearing...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2011
These performances of the Haydn cello concertos are at the furthest extreme from the opulent, glamorous versions by Rostropovich and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1999
Khachaturian's splendid concerto, his best work alongside the orginal score for Gayaneh, dates from the early war years. I remember...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1985
Though Benjamin Britten recorded a good proportion of his own works, both as pianist and conductor, there are some notable...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1999
I'm sure many a Schumann-lover will be glad to have three such cherished works on one and the same disc....
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1989
Writing in the October 1931 issue of The Gramophone, Rodney Gallop defined the fado as Portuguese “urban folksong”,...
Reviewed by pvernon in issue: 7/1998
Although Schubert's A minor and D major Sonatas were written in the same year (1825), they demonstrate an astonishing emotional...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
The Levine readings—big-boned and uninhibited—are outstanding. So, too, is Dohnanyi's account of the Fourth Symphony—easily the best and most vital...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 2/1989
Not having heard it for quite a while I was rather apprehensively wondering how well the Ireland Piano Concerto would...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1986
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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