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...
Simon Mayr (1763 1845) had a dependability that kept him immune to the inspirational ups and downs and empty note-spinning...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2015
The music of Matthew Martin (b1976) is haunted by the spirits of British composers who died while he was in...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2015
Marenzio’s Quinto libro di madrigali a sei voci (1591) was dedicated to his Roman patron Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2015
Kenneth Leighton’s remarkably consistent musical style means that his characteristic traits, such as extensive use of chromaticism and syncopation, plus...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 05/2015
Telemann claimed that while a law student he composed a psalm for St Thomas’s every fortnight. His earliest extant sacred...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2015
Listening to this disc gives you the impression that Niels la Cour is a composer who writes with an earnest...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 05/2015
An English Peter Schreier, albeit with a sweeter timbre, Mark Padmore combines an acute intelligence with an unvarnished directness in...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2015
The Philharmonie de Paris, Western Europe’s newest concert hall, is about as far from the centre of France’s capital as...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05
The Serbian-born sisters Lidija and Sanja Bizjak have devised a clever programme, pairing two concertos for two pianos and orchestra...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2015
Back in the mid-1970s, HMV included these two works among the carefully selected Soviet repertoire they issued on licence from...
Reviewed by David Fanning 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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