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...
No typical Italienisches Liederbuch, this. Neither Janet Baker nor John Shirley-Quirk was particularly known for this repertoire – though they’re...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2012
Of Vivaldi’s three surviving serenatas – large-scale cantatas with orchestra in which nothing much happens except to flatter a patron...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2012
Few have realised that, shortly after Parry’s glorious setting of Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’, he also wrote a comparable anthem in his...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2012
With its Christmas theme and grand double-choir layout, Palestrina’s Mass Hodie Christus natus est is well represented in the discography....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2012
Charles Wilfred Orr, born in 1893, has been described as ‘the unsung hero of English song’. He began his academic...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2012
Subtlety was not at the forefront of Orff’s mind when he wrote Carmina Burana, or so you might suppose from...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2012
Will-o’-the-Wisps in Town is one of 10 commissions to Danish composers for music to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Hans...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2012
Here is a curious beast. The event was the anniversary (in 2010) of the death of Chopin (in 1849). Chopin’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2012
This is a pleasing mini-concert, not least because it’s a special pleasure when a Haydn symphony is chosen which isn’t...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2012
Born in 1855, less than a decade after his celebrated cousin Felix had died, Arnold Mendelssohn was a close contemporary...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2012
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
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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