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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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS On Wenlock Edge. Ten Blake Songs
The easy cliché of English pastoralism is dissolved into something altogether darker and more dystopian in this disc from Mark...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2013
TAVERNER Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
Almost 30 years after their earlier recording of the work, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars return to what has...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2013
TAVERNER Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
Almost 30 years after their earlier recording of the work, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars return to what has...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2013
STEFFANI Stabat Mater, Dances & Overtures
The proclamation that Cecilia Bartoli ‘continues her Mission to discover the music of Agostino Steffani’ might lead an unsuspecting public...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2013
SCHUMANN Der Rose Pilgerfahrt. Requiem
With this pairing, Christoph Spering continues his exploration of some of the byways of the choral and vocal repertoire. Schumann’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013
PALESTRINA Missa O Magnum Mysterium
Harry Christophers’s Palestrina series continues with a Mass based on one of his own motets, O magnum mysterium (a text...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2013
MOZART Requiem
‘The Lucerne Festival 2012 has begun with a wonder,’ whispered Die Zeit, as quoted on the packaging for Abbado’s DVD...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013
MACHAUT Songs from Le Voir Dit
It feels like the Seventies again. Hyperion has apparently committed itself to a complete set of Machaut’s music. Not just...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2013
HAYDN Mass No 11, 'Nelson Mass'. Symphony No 102
The Nelson Mass is perhaps Haydn’s most popular church work. This is due in large part to the shocked awe...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013
R HANSON Thanksgiving Music
Born in Birmingham in 1948, the composer and conductor Robert Hanson held directorial posts at both Dartington College of Arts...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2013
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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