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...
Here the 16 singers of Stile Antico reinforce their already formidable reputation: intonation and balance are always flawless; the sound...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW2014
Erudite folksongs these, seen through the lens of the ‘classical composer’. But there’s a layer of experience, in the multinational...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW2014
Not since Simon Keenlyside’s Gramophone Award-winning ‘Songs of War’ (Sony, 2/12) have pre-existing art songs been so effectively moulded into...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2014
For his debut solo recital Julian Prégardien, son of Christoph, has devised an unhackneyed programme centring on the theme of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2014
Peter Warlock’s choral music hasn’t been particularly well served on disc – until this year, that is. Within a few...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2014
The pastoral landscapes of Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel are muddy underfoot with the imprints of the many baritones (and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2014
There has been a steady stream of discs from the smaller Oxbridge chapels over many years, recording the standard repertoire...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW2014
It may be perverse to give pride of place to the ‘bonus’ feature. But anyone acquiring this DVD of Haydn’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2014
This all-Grieg recital opens with Haugtussa, surely one of the most loveable song-cycles outside the German-language repertoire. Like a Nordic...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW2014
Frescobaldi was never officially maestro di cappella of any institution, although the renowned keyboard composer was employed as organist in...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2014
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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