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...
Contributions to the increasing representation of Stanford on record include the performances of Opp. 128 and 135, currently available otherwise...
Reviewed in issue 6/1998
The Elizabethan Age has inspired many anthologies, whether or not the focus be placed on that music-loving monarch. This one...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/2003
Robin Golding welcomed the LP's appearance seven years ago, though he found the Mozart ''slightly blander and more relaxed'' than...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1987
In a word: stunning. The playing of virtually all of London’s top horn players is marvellous. The Humperdinck ‘Evening Prayer’...
Reviewed by Malcolm Walker in issue: 11/1999
A new recital from Gustav Leonhardt of two of the Baroque’s most inventive keyboard composers: this combination of artist and...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 1/2003
The First Cello Concerto originally dates from 1930 when it was scored for small orchestra. Five years later Martinu revised...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1997
Each successive release in Zoltan Kocsis’s Bartok series reaffirms the accolades that greeted previous volumes in the series (1/94, 11/94...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/1997
Murray Perahia was 50 last year and 1997 also marked the 25th anniversary of his association with CBS Masterworks/Sony Classical....
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 4/1998
Maria Tipo is the mistress of her technique, and able to do just as she pleases with the music; the...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1991
As a high-powered virtuoso who is also a charmer, no one today so captivatingly inherits the mantle of Fritz Kreisler...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1986
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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