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...
About two-thirds of this excellent disc is devoted to music by Alfred Desenclos, about whom not much seems to be...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014
Jacob Cooper has a simple and logical explanation for why his song-cycle Silver Threads is set for electronics and voice,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2014
A fine-sounding, sensitively paced German Requiem with good, fairly chaste choral singing and an especially impressive baritone in Thomas E...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014
Here is a recording drawn from performances in the Herkulessaal in Munich, where Karl Richter recorded his versions in 1958...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014
There is a natural attraction in a live performance of Bach’s choral masterpiece made in the church where he worked...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2014
These four cantatas all come from the first year of Bach’s time in Leipzig, during which he had just started...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014
In 1737 Farinelli travelled to Madrid. Once in the Spanish capital of the melancholic Bourbon King Philip V, he was...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2014
A couple of years back, Tafelmusik’s ‘Galileo Project’ (6/12) linked Baroque music with images and readings reflecting the scientific advances...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014
The name of Arthur de Greef (1862-1940) is never mentioned in discussions of the so-called Golden Age defined by the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2014
This is a recording of the evergreen Four Seasons to remember and return to. The playing is sublime. Kati Debretzeni...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 07/2014
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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