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...
Ensemble Amarillis commemorate Rameau with a balanced offering alternating two chamber cantatas and two chamber concertos from Pièces de clavecin...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015
Following the 2013 release of Petrassi’s Magnificat and Salmo IX° (3/13), Gianandrea Noseda and the Orchestra e Coro Teatro Regio...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2015
To my knowledge this is only the second time a Monteverdi Vespers has fitted on to one CD, which may...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2015
The Melani clan of Pistoia spawned numerous successful musicians during the 17th century. Alessandro Melani (1639-1703) was the youngest of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015
This is the fourth instalment in a musical biography of the true Renaissance man among late-Renaissance composers. As with preceding...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2015
Much of Balfour Gardiner’s music has remained under a bushel for years. Celebrated in church for his bracing anthem, Evening...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2015
At their sublime best, Le Poème Harmonique’s recordings are so singular that comparisons with other performances of the same repertoire...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2015
This very enjoyable series continues its sequence of motets and hymns, with a Mass as the centerpiece – this time...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2015
It feels a little dangerous to say this, but the opening of Alisa Weilerstein’s ‘Solo’ hits the listener between the...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015
A winner at Operalia in 2009, Angel Blue is one of the top young singers on the ‘to watch’ list....
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2015
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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