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 pairing of the Catholics William Byrd and his student Peter Philips is logical both biographically and musically. Precisely because...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2014
Recordings of Byrd’s three Masses are so numerous that comparisons with this one are best limited to recordings with comparable...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2014
Zerreisset, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft is a serenata for the nameday of Leipzig University’s popular law and philosophy teacher August...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2014
Founded in 2009 by Peter Harvey, the Magdalena Consort now make their first recording, of cantatas from three of Bach’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2014
As I’ve become better acquainted with it I’ve warmed to this recording, a little, but I know I shan’t often...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 09/2014
This hybrid SACD was recorded at the Barbican in March 2013 as part of the LSO’s Brahms/Szymanowski festival. Although there...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2014
The bizarre title, ‘Mozart’s Instrumental Oratorium’, derives from Harnoncourt’s belief that the three late symphonies form a sort of ‘last...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2014
Over a dozen new recordings, not to mention an entirely new performing edition, of Bruckner’s youthfully vibrant and at times...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2014
Most of the differences between this Bruckner Ninth Symphony, which was recorded in concert just five months before Claudio Abbado’s...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014
The musicians of the Boston Early Music Festival first performed this charming pair of pastorales in 2011. They date very...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 09/2014
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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