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...
You can listen to this disc from Skip Sempé, Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons and Collegium Vocale Gent in the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2015
This is an intriguing programme from the Slovakian mezzo-soprano Lucia Duchoňová, consisting largely of works some way off the beaten...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2015
‘It was primarily thanks to music that the German-speaking countries were able to recover from the ordeal of the Thirty...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2015
This issue explores the earliest coherent repertory of what we now call the motet, namely four-voice Latin devotional pieces; and...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 02/2015
This CD’s imaginative programme offers music written in response to the events of the First World War. The five composers...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 02/2015
It feels like a long time since the last release from Ensemble Clément Janequin. They’ve been going for about 35...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2015
Anonymous 4 are retiring. Not immediately, but the American all-female vocal quartet have announced their decision to go their separate...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2015
Champs Hill Records has already given us a set of chamber music by Ludwig Thuille, the talented Munich composer and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015
For the musically curious with time on their hands, as well as a penchant for superb a cappella singing, this...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2015
Those who attended English National Opera’s production of Alexander Raskatov’s A Dog’s Heart in 2010 and came out both repulsed...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2015
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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