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...
This landmark Delphian recording forms the fourth and final issue of a series designed to showcase Merton College’s new choral...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2015
So much beauty, so much perfumed languor, so much rapture intermingled with sorrow is inhabited in this collection of ‘mélodies...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015
The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War has not gone unmarked in the record industry. In the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2015
Young Peter Pears comes to mind (not always happily) during this recital that finds tenor Thomas Michael Allen out of...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015
This has a genuinely interesting concept: music for alto voice and basso continuo by six accomplished ‘dilettante’ composers, some of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2015
The thesis of this disc isn’t a new one but it is always a welcome approach and has been originally...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015
Brahms believed that Hans von Bülow ‘disgraced himself for all time’ by lampooning this work as ‘opera in church clothing’....
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2015
Florian Boesch is never a singer to take for granted. In Schwanengesang he changes the (posthumously) published order of both...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2015
Born in Poland in 1984, Dariusz Przybylski studied in Germany with York Höller and Wolfgang Rihm; this recording was made...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2015
It was inevitable that a ripe choral warhorse such as Carmina Burana should now be worthy of a reassessment in...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley 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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