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...
Two albums of anthems written for the coronations of English kings, recorded in late 2022 for release on April 28,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2023
In Exile was recorded live at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall in December 2021 as part of the CBSO’s centenary celebrations. The...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2023
Reviewing these ensembles’ recording of Byrd’s 1588 Psalmes, Sonets, and Songs (6/21), I wondered whether they intended to survey all...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2023
When it comes to choral music in Britain, are there more powerful kingmakers than Stephen Layton and The Choir of...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2023
Roderick Chadwick’s 2020 recital ‘La mer bleue’, featuring the first book of Catalogue d’oiseaux alongside Szymanowski and David Gorton, set...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2023
'I like to bring works composed in various epochs under one umbrella. I need to feel the connection between the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2023
Schumann’s Waldszenen as a set rarely comes up for review. A shame, for these nine miniature tone poems – composed,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2023
Here’s an aural equivalent of time-lapse photography, a quick tour of musical history from JS Bach (a point of reference...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2023
Composed between 2008 and 2016, the works on this release count among the strongest and most evocative from Frederic Rzewski’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2023
Here reaching its fourth volume, Jean Muller’s Mozart survey has been garnering warm praise for its sensitivity to the idiom,...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2023
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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