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...
These two Lutheran Passions from opposite ends of the Baroque spectrum show how approaches to setting the gospel accounts of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2023
The death of Kaija Saariaho, so soon after the first London performances of her opera Innocence and the BBC/Barbican ‘Total...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2023
This series has for some time been pointing towards a more sensuous, sensitive Palestrina than many of us expected. Poor...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2023
This is the Cambridge-based ensemble De Profundis, founded in 2011, as opposed to the older ensembles of the same name...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2023
James O’Donnell masterminds an account of Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G minor to rank alongside the finest to have come...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2023
Liszt’s output exists in a state of flux, since many of his works (especially his songs) appear in multiple versions....
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 09/2023
This welcome new selection of Kenneth Leighton’s unaccompanied choral music brings a clutch of premiere recordings, none more valuable than...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2023
Haydn was justifiably proud of his 1767 Stabat mater. Within 15 years it was being performed far and wide, and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2023
The idea of putting Dering and Philips together is obvious enough: two English composers who landed up on the Continental...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2023
Three Antonios – Vivaldi, Caldara and Lotti, all close contemporaries, all pupils of Legrenzi – supply a snapshot of 18th-century...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2023
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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