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...
This follows the pattern of Sabine Devieilhe’s recital ‘Le grand théâtre de l’amour’ (Erato, 2/14) by fashioning a sequence of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014
This is an original and inventive anthology of songs by Spanish composers, but avoiding the Castilian language, presenting instead works...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2014
A master miniaturist, Peter Warlock is at his best in the songs – both solo and choral – that make...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2014
Anyone familiar with the old Philips recording (6/55) of Stravinsky conducting his Oedipus rex, and Jean Cocteau summoning the audience...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 07/2014
In his introduction to the booklet Thomas Hampson says that he wanted to mark Strauss’s 150th anniversary by offering a...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2014
Shostakovich’s songs continue to lag behind the rest of his output in terms of their representation on recordings and in...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2014
It seems these days as though every self-respecting chamber choir is keen to record Rachmaninov’s monumental a cappella masterpiece as...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2014
Voces8 here make use of their intermediate size – neither a choir nor strictly a one-to-a part ensemble – to...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014
Glasgow-based Linn Records continues to do well by its Scottish artists. As anybody who has heard Karen Cargill in 19th-century...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2014
Last year, the soprano Robert Invernizzi joined forces with the mighty mezzo Sonia Prina for a disc of Baroque duetti...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan 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...
If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.