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...
Mozart's music for two pianists is fairly well served, and it is not long since I reviewed it in the...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1993
Time was when violinists, ignorant of the existence of Faure’s E minor Sonata, enquired politely about possible couplings for the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1996
This is an interestingly planned programme even if it begins unpromisingly with an overly clamorous account of the Overture to...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1997
These well filled discs are as much a valuable and fascinating survey of Stravinsky’s piano music for four hands as...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2008
Nowadays, the majority of classic Beethoven symphony recordings are at mid-price. Attempt to economize further and you are liable to...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1994
In the plethora of Mozart recordings of recent years, the church music has been largely overlooked, a few major works...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 9/1989
The music of Guillaume Gabriel Nivers, together with that of the Couperins, de Grigny, Lebegue, Marchand and Raison, represents the...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 11/1998
Lord Berners has now arrived in style! All his music is available on CD; all his published writings are back...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/2001
Although not normally given to fits of nostalgia, I have to confess that this CD found me beaming back to...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
Crusell’s three clarinet concertos fit comfortably on to a single disc‚ and have become fairly well known; the Sinfonia concertante...
Reviewed in issue 11/2001
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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