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...
DVD recordings of concerts do not always promise the most exciting of visual spectacles, especially when filmed in an auditorium...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2014
Someone, it seems, is keen on putting Gdan´sk on the musical map of Europe. A little while ago I reviewed...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2014
Hugo Wolf’s songs tend to be such self-sufficient worlds in miniature that one rarely sees them given the sort of...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2014
This disc brings together five cantatas closely associated with Luther, mostly on texts by Telemann’s long-term collaborator Erdmann Neumeister and...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2014
The first recording of Tallis’s Missa Puer natus est nobis dates from 2001 – a result not of neglect but...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2014
This certainly isn’t the most mellifluous Schöne Müllerin around. While Florian Boesch’s baritone is resonant and colourful, a dulcet legato...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2014
Terje Rypdal (b1947) is hard to pin down stylistically. His roots are in jazz (as trumpeter and guitarist) but, like...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2014
Having been thoroughly bowled over by the Latvian Radio Choir’s luxurious 2011 recording of this choral masterpiece – a Gramophone...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2014
The choristers of New College, Oxford, ranging in age from nine to 13, ‘cheerfully state the obvious truth that we...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2014
The renowned Parmesan harpist and tenor Marco Marazzoli (c1605-1662) benefited from the patronage of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, whose family secured...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2014
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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