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...
The only frustrating thing about this disc is how long Isabelle Faust (or maybe Harmonia Mundi) has made us wait...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012
Andrea Bacchetti takes an unashamedly pianistic approach to Bach – and there’s nothing wrong with that. Thus he’s not afraid...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012
The 20 tracks on this secular Anglo-Irish part-song anthology provided the perfect aural backdrop to the patches of snowdrops and...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2013
This intriguing compilation contrasts the music of three composers with strong Germanic connections, all born in the 1880s, with works...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 05/2013
This monumental collection is a celebration of the life and impact of Erasmus, visionary of the global village ahead of...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2013
Thank you, Anna Prohaska, for not doing a Handel or Vivaldi arias disc; I am with my colleague David Vickers...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2013
Belying the stereotyped image of Russian sopranos, the 23-year-old Julia Lezhneva fields a voice of bell-like purity, even throughout its...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2013
Somewhere between the promising inception of this project and the final disc, significant elements have been lost. In her booklet-notes,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2013
Atoning for their recent offering of bawdy Neapolitan cantatas, I Turchini here do penance in music associated with the chapel...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2013
The authorship of Septem verba a Christo in cruce moriente prolata has been disputed for more than a century. There...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2013
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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