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...
With Debussy’s Préludes attracting some exceptional recordings (and I include as comparisons only those by contemporary pianists), it’s a bold...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2015
Lars Vogt is a pianist I admire greatly, though Chopin is not a composer with whom I’d readily associate him....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2015
Music notation is a map providing points of orientation that allow players to walk the interpretative walk, their idea of...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015
Youth has long been thought of as a considerable impediment to the artistically successful – live or recorded – performance...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2015
The proMODERN Sextet, new to me, is a highly accomplished group of young singers specialising in contemporary Polish music, and...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2015
That Stephen Layton’s recording of contemporary Baltic choral music, ‘Baltic Exchange’, with Polyphony (4/10) displays no overlap of repertoire with...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2015
The Messes solennelles by Langlais and Vierne are regular bedfellows on disc. Here Andrew Nethsinga and the Choir of St...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2015
Performances at the Aix-en-Provence festival can sometimes stretch to the other side of midnight. This programme began as a recital...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2015
Three previous discs from the Choir of Clare College and Graham Ross have covered Advent, Christmas and Passiontide respectively. This...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2015
This CD presents an assortment of favourite pieces from the repertoire of the Danish choir Concert Clemens. The music comes...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 04/2015
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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