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...
Korean violinist, Polish orchestra, English conductor—what could be firmer proof of Elgar's regained international status than this new Naxos recording...
Reviewed in issue 4/1992
She first came to our attention as one of Les Arts Florissants: now sought after as much by the likes...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1998
Walton's first recording as conductor of his Viola Concerto was made for Decca in 1937, and as EG has suggested...
Reviewed in issue 11/1987
This isn't quite the same company that opened in Carousel at the Royal National Theatre in December 1992, for since...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 5/1994
Katharina Wagner at first presents Walther von Stolzing as a paint-spraying performance artist and Beckmesser as a retentive, Reclam photocopying...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 3/2011
This new recording of Handel's Messiah was made during four public performances in St John's, Smith Square, London, last year....
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1987
For most of Mozart's masses you have to rely for identification on their Kochel numbers, for there is so much...
Reviewed in issue 7/1985
By the time this appears in print Shelley will have played all Rachmaninov's original solo piano works in five London...
Reviewed in issue 11/1983
Dahler's Franz Brodmann fortepiano is the perennial attraction of Haefliger's Lieder releases. Its subtle sweetness of inflection marries well with...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1988
It is good news that the Fundacion Caja de Madrid is initiating a programme of recordings of neglected Spanish works,...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1992
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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