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...
The latest volume in Stone Records’ complete survey of Wolf’s songs follows the same pattern as previous releases: young singers...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2015
Wolfgang Holzmair’s 1999 recording of Die schöne Müllerin with Imogen Cooper has long been admired for its freshness and expressive...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2015
The major item on this excellent new Ondine release is the suite for soprano and small orchestra (2011) from Kaija...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2015
‘Rung & Rung’ proclaims the cover of this Danacord issue, boldly if enigmatically. I confess I had never previously heard...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2015
The New Chamber Singers is a choir of mostly English-speaking singers based in Rome. There are some two dozen voices...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2015
While this colourful orchestral song-cycle from 2010 has in many ways a close relative in the Symphony No 8, Songs...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2015
Adriana Hölszky, born in Bucharest in 1953, was a pupil of S¸tefan Niculescu, the Romanian composer renowned for strips of...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015
Hildegard of Bingen is now firmly enough established that she has almost achieved the Bach-like status according to which it...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2015
There is some peculiar Latin pronunciation to negotiate as well as disconcertingly brisk tempi – for Hervé Niquet In Paradisum...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2015
This recording of Elgar’s King Olaf on Chandos comes no less than 28 years after the first (conducted by Vernon...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble 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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