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...
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Diana Damrau: Forever
Diana Damrau describes this CD as a ‘soundtrack of memory’, which takes her on a very personal journey from Vienna...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 01/2014
Exaudi: Exposure
The University of Huddersfield boasts a Centre for Research in New Music, and several of the composers represented on this...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2014
SHEPPARD Choral Works
John Sheppard’s standing among modern commentators is mixed: David Wulstan’s defence of him against his detractors (witheringly styled ‘pundits’) was...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2014
SCHÜTZ Psalmen Davids
The Psalmen Davids of 1619 marked Schütz’s first foray into the realm of sacred music. In its monumentality and its...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2014
PERGOLESI Stabat Mater
The vast Stabat mater discography offers plenty of outstanding interpretations catering for different tastes. Nevertheless, Julia Lezhneva’s bright-eyed tone and...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2014
HEGGIE Here/After - Songs of Lost Voices
The haunting cover photo of the dishevelled sculptor Camille Claudel sets the conceptual tone for song-cycles by Jake Heggie that,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2014
FAURÉ Mélodies
Though no stranger to the microphone, Ailish Tynan gets in her own way with a sometimes over-sung recital of songs...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2014
A Festival of Britten
For the past few years the National Youth Choir of Great Britain has been among the stars of the BBC...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2014
BRITTEN The Five Canticles
The Wigmore Hall was first out of the stocks in November 2012 with its anniversary programme to mark Britten’s centenary....
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2014
JS BACH A Christmas Oratorio
Philippe Herreweghe’s understated conducting helps to form a smoothly paced narrative from the six cantatas Bach designed for different consecutive...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2014
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Berl Senofsky: American Virtuoso
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Book review - Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer (by Simon Morrison)
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
Review - Max Rostal: Concert Tours 1956-1965
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Review - The Complete Symphonic, Concertante & Sacred Music Recordings (Orch dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano)
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
Review - recent Mengelberg releases from the archives
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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