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...
As one of his most perfect works, Josquin’s Mass Ave maris stella is now available in a wide range of...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2014
When John Rutter composed The Shepherd’s Pipe Carol for the second volume of Carols for Choirs back in 1967, he...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2014
It is misleading to rank The Triumph of Time and Truth (1757) as Handel’s last English oratorio. Unlike Jephtha (1752),...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2014
His classical credentials might be impeccable but Jorge Grundman (b1961) is best known for his research into acoustics and technology...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2014
Performances on disc remain relatively rare, and I wish I could greet this new recording of Bruckner’s Mass No 3...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2014
Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang show how to interpret Brahms’s intentions, their expression precisely tailored to the expressive curves clearly...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2014
Of all the things that could have emerged from last year’s Dowland anniversary, perhaps for many the most devoutly to...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014
William Mundy’s Vox Patris caelestis is probably his most famous piece (I reviewed The Sixteen’s most recent account in April),...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2014
Lirone player Erin Headley (co-founder of Tragicomedia) now has her own group, Atalante, who here present the third volume of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2014
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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