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...
Hugo Wolf’s Spanisches Liederbuch has been recorded by many of the great Wolf singers. But this youngish, lesser-known foursome have...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014
Michael Talbot judges that Vivaldi’s cantatas accompanied only by basso continuo ‘constitute the least innovatory portion of his output, but...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014
Gaetano Veneziano (1665-1715) trained in Naples and taught for most of his life at the city’s Conservatorio di S Maria...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014
Ah yes: John Christopher Smith, geboren Johann Christoph Schmidt, whom Handel invited to London in 1716 to look after his...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2014
Purcell’s music is above all memorably tuneful in a new way for English music. But apart from its prolific melody,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 06/2014
Among French singers, François Le Roux has been one of the foremost in revealing the delights and diversity of Poulenc’s...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
With Thomas Quasthoff retired, many would nominate Christian Gerhaher as today’s pre-eminent German Lieder baritone (the more controversial Goerne is...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2014
Coming to this disc as a Mark Padmore admirer – rather than as someone who has followed the recorded trajectory...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014
Gesualdo’s Responsories for Holy Week need no introduction by now; not so La Compagnia del Madrigale, a recently formed ensemble,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2014
Music that uses the mouth as an instrument has evolved apace over the past century and Erin Gee clearly has...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2014
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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