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 fine performance of the Overture to La clemenza di Tito that begins this concert by Sandor Vegh and the...
Reviewed in issue 10/1996
Last (and first) heard on records in 1993 when it was introduced as Vol 2 in ASV’s promising English church...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/2008
Roger Norrington’s ban on vibrato places this disc in a category of its own. His emulation of the orchestral sound...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 8/2009
A large-scale religious work for soloists, chorus and orchestra would seem to be a new departure for the British songwriter...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 2/2000
In a careless moment we might describe Bryn Terfel as a very physical singer, and it would be true up...
Reviewed in issue 6/1996
Joseph Martin Kraus was a German contemporary of Mozart’s – the two men were born in the same year, but...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1998
Let’s have no talk, please, of this being a crossover album. Both Corea and McFerrin take Mozart perfectly seriously and...
Reviewed in issue 1/1997
Rather like the image of Skelling Rock in Ireland that adorns the cover of this CD, Corcoran's symphonies stand implacable...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 3/2000
Here is chamber-music playing of the highest quality, strong yet sensitive in all the right places. It confirms, if proof...
Reviewed in issue 11/1985
Charpentier’s Christmas music represents some of the composer’s richest creations‚ selected works of which William Christie explored in the earlytomid...
Reviewed in issue 1/2002
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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