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...
Until recently the Munich-based Venetian composer Giovanni Ferrandini (1709 91) has probably been known to only a few attentive observers...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014
These two artist-produced French song recitals illustrate the pluses and minuses of artistic control. Now in her mid 60s, Barbara...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014
Håkon Gullvåg’s startlingly macabre cover work (The Resurrection) provides a powerful indication that the music will be innovative and strong,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2014
A hitherto little-known manuscript now in the Czech National Library contains a Missa defunctorum by Caldara that comprises the first...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014
Except for the exquisite Sinfonia that opens No 156, none of these Epiphany cantatas is familiar fare. But with Bach...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2014
For this latest instalment in his personal selection of Bach cantatas – one for each Sunday and liturgical feast –...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2014
Quibbling with the completeness of Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Cantata Pilgrimage is a touch academic, as almost all the sacred...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2014
This recital from Juan Diego Flórez marks a new departure into different areas of 19th-century French repertoire. But the voice,...
Reviewed in issue 06/2014
Though her career is still in the emerging stage, with plenty of credits in smaller-city opera houses and major-city early-music...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014
In some respects this is a traditional Parsifal, with spears, a chalice, a grave for Titurel, a bed for Kundry’s...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall 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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