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...
There have already been two other DVDs of L’elisir d’amore with Rolando Villazón in the cast but this is the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2014
Francesco Cilea’s L’arlesiana – based on the play, Alphonse Daudet’s L’arlésienne, for which Bizet provided his famous incidental music –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2014
For her eighth Naïve CD Lise de la Salle turns to Schumann, ranging from Kinderszenen (most touching of childhood visions...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2014
It’s 4.30 in the morning and you sit in an airport lounge feeling dazed and displaced, reflecting on the fact...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2014
Jesus College, Cambridge, has ‘choirs’ rather than a choir: the all-male Chapel Choir with its boy trebles, the mixed College...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2014
It was a mark of good breeding for the Renaissance gentleman to accompany himself on a string instrument. Nowadays, the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2014
There is remarkably little of Thomas Tomkins’s sacred music on disc in comparison to his contemporaries (and his teacher, William...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2014
Etienne Moulinié (1599-1676) was director of music to Louis XIII’s rebellious younger brother Duke Gaston of Orléans; he also served...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2014
That the Glagolitic Mass has a complex history is by now common knowledge. Not long ago a score of the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2014
Between 2010 and 2013 Gabriel Jackson was Associate Composer at the BBC Singers and in that time produced eight works...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/2014
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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