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 Hallé’s association with Colin Matthews continues. Aftertones (2000) was a commission from the Huddersfield Choral Society, these ‘Three Landscapes...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2015
Pietro Mascagni’s work on his Messa di Gloria was interrupted in 1887 by his commission to write Cavalleria rusticana. Although...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015
In Conversations with Carlos, Charles Barber describes the singular record of Kleiber conducting Mahler as ‘invaluable’. It’s a word I’d...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2015
Since this recording was first issued in 2004 there have been at least two new recordings of La Rue’s Requiem,...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2015
This fascinating CD brings together the collaborations between Elgar and Laurence Binyon – the Spirit of England trilogy (performed complete...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2015
Buoyed by the enthusiastic reception afforded his Stabat mater by English choral societies and commissioned to set The Dream of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2015
Penitence might be the prevailing theme on this disc but there’s nothing penitential in the experience of this exquisite recording. Herreweghe...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2015
These relaxed and often sensuous performances seem conceived to support the view that Brahms’s choral style is shaped more by...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2015
For Pygmalion’s debut disc on Harmonia Mundi – following a small but perfectly formed legacy of Bach recordings for Alpha...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 01/2015
First impressions are of an imposing acoustic (Cologne Philharmonie) and – on the back of an unflinching down-the-line trumpet solo...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2014
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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