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...
I was particularly grateful to receive this set, principally because it affords me the opportunity of putting to rights...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2011
Not for the Belcea Quartet is Op 18 No 5 meant to echo the spirit of Mozart as it does...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 08/2013
This compilation recreates one of The Sixteen’s concert programmes, focusing on English choral music from Tallis to Tippett (with a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2013
Paul Van Nevel has been recording early polyphony with the Huelgas Ensemble for almost 40 years, but has not previously...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2013
This disc of 13 anthems from the Choirbook for the Queen includes all 11 of its special commissions, and suspends...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2013
Thomas Dausgaard’s early-Romantic-era recordings, played in smaller-scale performances by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, have offered discreet transformations of well-loved works,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2013
Although the rich textures and adventurous harmonies of composers like Lauridsen and Whitacre may be fashionable, music of a more...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 08/2013
Boulez’s recordings become more precious the less we hear from him. He still has so much to say about the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2013
The combination of Westminster Cathedral Choir and MacMillan is irresistible. We are drawn immediately into their complicity by the jaw-dropping...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2013
There are four extant settings of Dixit Dominus by Alessandro Scarlatti. Half are simple stile antico pieces but the Choir...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2013
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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