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...
Every time Mike Westbrook records Glad Day – his much loved settings of William Blake for two solo voices, choir...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2014
Some works don’t define their era but merely recall it. So listeners would have to be rather fascinated by the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014
Though Schubert’s great song-cycle has had its day with period instruments, this recording has some differences that allow it to...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014
Moses Pergament (1893-1977) has been described as ‘one of the best-kept secrets of Swedish music’, although he was born in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014
The Neapolitan composer Davide Perez (1711 78) settled in Lisbon and his mastery earned him respect in London: he became...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2014
By his own admission, the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki has ‘spent decades searching for and discovering new sounds’. Nowhere are...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2014
The Sixteen’s Palestrina series marches on, following a formula now firmly established in earlier instalments: a Mass, a hymn, a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2014
Jephtha (1752) dramatises the folly, pride and penitence of the Hebrew general who rashly vows to Jehovah that if his...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2014
Messiaen’s song-cycle Poèmes pour Mi and his first wife Claire Delbos’s L’âme en bourgeon were premiered in the same Paris...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan 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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