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...
Those of us too young to have ever seen Callas live have to be content with fragmentary records like this...
Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 2/2000
Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882–1973) was born in the same year as Stravinsky and outlived his great contemporary by more than...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1992
With the outstandingly perceptive period-instrument performances of Haydn’s E major Trio (No. 28) by both the incisive and bracing Beths/Bylsma/Levin...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 6/1996
With musical elder-statesmanship comes the opportunity to revisit past repertoire and make new, potentially definitive records of one’s interpretations. Martha...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 0/0
In 1988 EMI issued a ''Constant Lambert Conducts'' LP in their Treasury Series which I reviewed in October of that...
Reviewed in issue 9/1992
A first-rate Britten collection. Takuo Yuasa's Grimes Interludes are a match for the finest available: with the RLPO on powerfully...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1995
EMI could scarcely have come up with a better way to lauch its new West End Angel series. The Arcadians...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/1994
Here is a prima facie case of unnecessary duplication. The Scots must surely have known that the BBC Welsh Glazunov...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2004
As indicated above, Concerto No. 4 was with us on LP, and did not impress. It is all highly accomplished...
Reviewed in issue 8/1985
Francis Jackson is very much the elder statesman of the British organ community. He has remained active as an organist...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2006
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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