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...
It is now 20 years since Howells’s substantial setting of the Stabat mater was recorded by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2014
Astonishingly, Haitink waited until he was 82 to conduct The Creation for the first time. Yet his profound sympathy for...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2014
Those expecting the composer’s trademark chromaticisms in his motets will be largely disappointed, but these more conservative pieces dispel the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2014
Complete settings of the Requiem Mass by Scandinavian composers are few and far between. Rarer still are those by Danes....
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2014
This is unquestionably the strongest Gerontius to have come my way since Sir Mark Elder’s Gramophone Award-winning Hallé account (1/09)....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2014
Having already earned plaudits for his first two volumes of Debussy songs (5/03, 6/12), Malcolm Martineau here partners the soprano...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2014
Matti Borg (b1956) has enjoyed a triple career as an operatic baritone, composer and teacher. He graduated from Ib Nørholm’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2014
The idea of faith merits not a single mention in almost an an hour of spoken material ancillary to this...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2014
Studying in Paris helped to define Alison Balsom’s belief of what a virtuoso trumpet soloist might achieve in the footsteps...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014
If Mozart and Haydn have long been established as the dominant Viennese figures of the 1780s, it is always fascinating...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris 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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