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 Berlin Radio Choir join together with members of the excellent Polyphonia Ensemble in Risto Joost’s moving but not extrovert...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 04/2015
Polyphonic Requiems composed and published in Italy in the 17th century number in the hundreds, so it’s small wonder that...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2015
Although this disc was recorded in the northernmost medieval cathedral in the world (in Trondheim), there is nothing chilly about...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2015
Piston’s Suite from his ballet The Incredible Flutist has been his best-known work but it owes more to 19th-century ballet...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 04/2015
The booklet essay outlines a programme to each work which might not be readily appreciable from the performances. The meeting...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2015
Fröst is the star of the show here. Not that the four accompanying orchestras and conductors are anything but exemplary...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2015
These are all live recordings, followed by applause, forming the first CD by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Louis Langrée....
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 04/2015
Zefiro present oboe concertos by different composers all associated to varying degrees with Venice. The quality of Zefiro’s musicianship and...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015
The enterprising Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra known as Tempesta di Mare, founded in 2002, was the brainchild of the American lutenist...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2015
Captured with thrilling fidelity by the microphones, Spano’s reading of the 1936 cantata Dona nobis pacem impresses by dint of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach 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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