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 third helping of Eton Choirbook music will gladden all those interested in this fascinating repertory. The commitment shown to...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2014
The American soprano Nicole Cabell’s recording career has been a curious one. After winning the BBC Cardiff Singer of the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2014
This is an imaginative programme of settings of Marian texts by Nordic composers, including Anonymous (the Ave maris stella from...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2014
Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s new disc explores two potent strands of Russia’s musical fabric, folksong and Orthodox Church anthems, separated in this...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2014
The title ‘Pietà’ alludes to the Ospedale della Pietà, the girls’ orphanage in Venice with which Vivaldi was associated on...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2014
Verdi’s songs are worth searching out by those who already know the operas. Ramón Vargas, who has sung a dozen...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2014
As I had never heard of this composer before and as my knowledge of Slovak poetry is as non-existent as...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014
Jan Novák was born in Moravia in 1921 and, after many problems with the Communist authorities and travels abroad that...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/2014
Previous ABC releases from this popular Australian bass-baritone have included a Mozart album which shows off the lighter side of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2014
Numerous composers have attempted to render the Holocaust (or at least some aspect of it) in music, often without the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2014
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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