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...
There is no straightforward answer to the question of which of the five versions of Berlioz's dramatic symphony listed above...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1988
Philippe Graffin has one major advantage over his rivals: his pure intonation. Even the most demanding of Ysaye’s flights of...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/1997
This new release brings a third player into the field for this important organ work by Dupré. On Naxos...
Reviewed in issue 6/2002
It’s a long while since David Fallows welcomed The Cardinall’s Musick’s recording debut with superlatives (ASV, 7/93). Ludford’s six-voice festal...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/2008
Here, once more, are riches indeed even when heard through a glass darkly. Ward Marston has done his best with...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2007
Alonso Lobo is one of those composers whose music, though relatively little recorded, never fails to attract attention. This CD...
Reviewed by Tess Knighton in issue: 6/2003
The B flat major String Quintet is the first Mozart work for this combination of instruments and was written in...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1989
Listening to this recording of Noye's Fludde after an interval of years has been an entrancing experience. I had not...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1990
This three-disc set claims to offer the complete keyboard works minus the sonatas and variations, but also missing are several...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1992
The origins of Shostakovich’s crowning masterpiece for the piano lay in his 1950 visit to Leipzig as a jury member...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2010
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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