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...
From a marketing standpoint, the presence of a dozen or so Ian Bostridge Schubert discs might suggest a saturation point....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014
How low can you go? To a choral director considering the All-Night Vigil this is, perhaps, the paramount question. Although...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2014
Two fascinating and quite different discs of music by the two Panufniks, father and daughter. ‘Dreamscape’ is a beautifully conceived...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2014
There’s a restraint – and not just the enforced restraint of Tridentine edicts – to Palestrina’s four sets of Lamentations...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2014
In what amounts to a masterpiece of disastrous timing, Mariss Jansons’s live (applause excised) Concertgebouw Mozart Requiem follows only a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2014
The music of both Arvo Pärt and Ivan Moody is characterised by its directness, the sonic purity of its gestures....
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2014
This is in many ways a ‘traditional’ Monteverdi Vespers, carrying little in the way of musicological baggage. Performed in the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2014
This recital takes us through 25 years of Mahler’s composing life, from the Frühe Lieder to the Rückert Lieder. Not...
Reviewed in issue 08/2014
Robert Kyr (b1952) represents a curious phenomenon: a composer just now achieving mainstream recognition after a long, productive creative life...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014
Intrepid admirers of Baroque sacred music will probably know something about Handel’s so-called Brockes Passion (c1716), and there have also...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2014
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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