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...
This is an attractive programme but two items in particular are sure to draw me back to it. George Butterworth’s...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2005
Last year’s disc of early Mozart piano concertos from Israeli pianist David Greilsammer and his New York-based Suedama Ensemble received...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 2/2010
Furtwangler and Edwin Fischer formed a long artistic partnership, and their glorious recording of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto bears witness to...
Reviewed in issue 10/1989
The bulk of Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s cello and piano music dates from around 1930; only the Valse and the Paraphrase come from...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/1999
Following his initial sally with Haydn's last five sonatas (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 5/91), Andreas Staier is now firmly embarked on...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/1994
This discerningly assembled programme of chamber music with viola da gamba by Telemann shows off the composer in some of...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1999
This is the first recital of the young soprano who was catapulted to fame when Karajan cast her as Elisabetta...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1989
Dismissive as Poulenc was of much of his solo piano music, he seems to have been reasonably happy with his...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 1/2005
Bruch’s quiet rehabilitation continues apace with largely persuasive accounts of the Third Violin Concerto – Krecher’s solo line a romantically...
Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 7/1999
Bruson and Sabbatini give no sign here of having listened to reputable singers of Mozart or of having anything beyond...
Reviewed in issue 10/1991
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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