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 impressively wide collection of pieces comes from the formidable Leeds-based choir, the St Peter’s Singers, recording in Frank Matcham’s...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 05/2015
Early music needs another British vocal ensemble like a meerkat needs car insurance. It’s a field that’s already standing-room only,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2015
Philippe Jaroussky clearly subscribes to the habit-forming appeal of French art song, having titled his first recorded recital ‘Opium’, and...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2015
It would be difficult to find a group more steeped in serious musicological research than Cappella Romana, and their discs...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2015
Launched with 2014’s ‘The Art of Melancholy’ (Hyperion, 7/14), the partnership between young lutenist Thomas Dunford and countertenor Iestyn Davies...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2015
The music of Spain’s Golden Age has always been near to Harry Christophers’s heart, a commitment that shines through in...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2015
Amid a clutch of floral favourites – say, Purcell’s ‘Sweeter than roses’ (in Britten’s flamboyant arrangement), Schumann’s ‘Jasminenstrauch’ and Fauré’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2015
Unlike the earlier mix-and-match releases in Hyperion’s Strauss song survey, this disc consists entirely of less popular works, opening with...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2015
The Moravian-born composer Franz Xaver Richter (1709 89) is one of those ‘pre-Classical’ figures whose music is written about more...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2015
The commercial recording history of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil stretches back only 50 years, with at least three outstanding versions having...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2015
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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