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...
Dark Vigil, written just after the Columbine High School shootings, is a meditation on the emotional turmoil of adolescence and...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 13/2004
I suspect the discs which will comprise this series of Complete Organ Works are going to be padded out with...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/1997
A vital element for an enduring Daphnis, for me, is not the capacity of the climaxes to overwhelm with decibels...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1991
If you are strapped for cash, or even if you are not, this is a real bargain, just about as...
Reviewed in issue 1/1998
For once my enthusiasm for a disc in the Hyperion Schubert Edition is somewhat limited. Indeed this CD's drawbacks bring...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1991
One of the hallmarks of the finest Kempe performances was the euphony of the sound and the ease of the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2000
What a valuable and rewarding release! Dedicated Anglophiles will recall that Sir John Pritchard’s account of Rawsthorne’s First Symphony originally...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1996
Chandos released an impressive disc of The Canticle of the Sun by the Danish National Choir with David Geringas earlier...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 11/2004
Again, as with the first disc which I reviewed in April in this recently launched pilgrimage through Schubert's last six...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1988
The trouble with Romeo et Juliette is that we have been spoilt by the versions by Davis (Philips) and Dutoit...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1993
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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